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    Mud Season
    Mud Season
    Mud Season
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    Mud Season

    By Kristina Baer

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    "Mud season, spring's dismal preamble, brings cold snaps and warm spells, snow squalls and downpours. Outlanders complain. Vermonters shrug. Today, the smell of mud and pine needles mingled with the steamy fragrance of maple sap drifting up through the woods from a sugar house across the lake. We would soon see snowdrops. And geese, on their way

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPark Place Publications
    Release dateJul 30, 2021
    ISBN9781953120373
    Mud Season
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    Kristina Baer

    Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Kristina Baer lives in California. She has published a poetry collection with original woodblock prints by Ilse Buchert Nesbitt (Captured Views: Impression of Ten Gardens, Third & Elm Press, 2006), a novel (Minerva's Fox, Two Harbors Press, 2015), and a collection of short stories (Mud Season, Park Place Publications, 2021). She has exhibited her poems and photographs at the Pacific Grove Art Center in Pacific Grove, CA.

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