[caption id="attachment_274808" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Toadshade trillium in bud, one of the many spring wildflowers soon to bloom on our trails.[/caption] It’s hugely exciting times for college hoops fans, awash in basketball games where they breathlessly wait to see if, oh, the Providence Friars can hold off the South Dakota State Jackrabbits. (OK, Villanova vs. Delaware is pretty cool.) Some $3.1 billion will be bet-- DOUBLE what was spent only last year-- and almost 40 million Americans will fill out those brackets.  Over 19-year-old kids playing hoops. Welcome to March Madness.  Meanwhile, receiving no fanfare at all, nature in March is…

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