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    MUSICVIDEO: “Winter Walking,” when it’s not such a wonderland

    February 16, 2021 /

    A long winter grips the land. Add in cabin-fever weariness from a year-long COVID quarantine—and you can be forgiven if it seems like we are living through "a winter that never dies." Here's a music video about that.

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    PHOTOPOEM: “When Hay Bales Speak to You”

    February 11, 2021 /

    Let’s talk hay bales. I have, perhaps like you, been spying hay 
bales most all my life. Yet, in all that time haven’t met a hay bale. Up close. The other day, I had my chance.

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  • Nature,  NatureGram,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    February 10, 2021 /

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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  • Nature,  Stories

    VIDEO: “The Edge of Day”

    February 9, 2021 /

    Thoughts on high while at the edge of day. An original short video production featuring imagery and music by Bobby Lee Messer and words by Kim Wilkinson.

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    VIDEO: A Sky-high View of the New River Gorge Bridge

    January 30, 2021 /

    The New River Gorge Bridge is one of West Virginia's most iconic landmarks. But have you ever seen it from an eagle's eye view—or maybe an Olympian god's?

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    NATUREGRAM: January Stroll Under an Azure Sky

    January 14, 2021 /

    The dried out, frosty marshlands are not really absent of life and color. You just have to hang out and look and listen more closely as you stroll the woods and walkways beside the Ohio in western West Virginia.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: When Snow Day is Christmas Day & the Day After

    December 27, 2020 /

    It's rare for Huntington, W.Va. to get snow on Christmas, much less the perfect snow for sledding. The Christmas Eve snowstorm at the end of the long, hard year of 2020 will likely remain for a long while in people's memories, as Christmas unfolded with snow, sunshine and the holiday all wrapped into one day.

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    VIDEO: The debut of “Animals in Appalachia” with “Deer Me”

    December 22, 2020 /

    In the start of a new short video series, "Animals in Appalachia" by WestVirginiaVille.com, a mother deer puts her foot down as she momentarily loses track of her two fawns.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    PHOTO|ESSAY: 10 ways of coping with a dreary West Virginia winter’s day

    December 17, 2020 /

    On a winter day of all-day rain and bone-chilling cold, I give up trying to Figure It All Out. Instead, I sift through my photos, crop and lightly filter them. Maybe I can find order and meaning there. Or an aesthetic distraction, which may be just as good.

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    NATUREGRAM | 10 Variations on a West Virginia Ginkgo

    November 20, 2020 /

    It is an auspicious place, this former plantation and home to more than 50 slaves before West Virginia ever came to be. But on this Autumn Appalachian day, the ginkgo biloba trees recall a more illuminated present.

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    How to Create Your Own West Virginia Woodland Paradise

    September 25, 2020 /

    Even if you’re a “Townie” on a small city lot and don’t have acres to play with, you can still create an “island” of forest to enjoy. All you need is a little shade or dappled sunlight.

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    CHARACTERS: A Portrait of the Artist in Her Garden

    August 20, 2020 /

    Sassa Wilkes paints every day. Now, she is painting in a different fashion, using the Earth as a palette. A portrait of a West Virginia artist growing things in a big way for the first time, thanks to Covid-19.

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    READINGS | A Stroll Deep into a West Virginia Marsh

    July 10, 2020 /

    If it’s true we are mother, father, sister, brother, related all to all, maybe that's one way to comprehend and befriend the ten thousand things. The hundreds of voices, cries, and songs rising from this manifold marsh.

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    The Glickster’s Pix:
    A Sea of Gold

    June 3, 2020 /

    As WestVirginiaVille grows its roster of things we cover as a Mountain State feature magazine, we also need to cover growing things. Enter our new occasional column: '"Glickster's Pix."

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