March 1st- Another Narrowly Avoided Leap Day
Speaking of dubbles and magic: there is an old English tradition that if the first thing you say and hear on the first day of a new month is “Rabbit Rabbit,” good fortune will follow you. Or at least, so Nickelodeon told me in my youth.
“Throw up a handful of feathers, and all must fall to the ground according to definite laws; but how simple is this problem compared to the action and reaction of the innumerable plants and animals which have determined, in the course of centuries, the proportional numbers and kinds of trees now growing on the old Indian ruins!”



























