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Evening Loop of Backyard
I start a loop walk of my backyard before going in for the night. Widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) rests in the love-in-the-mist. Love-in-the-mist (Nigella sp.) is an annual and has an interesting...
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Changes
I sit on the couch, staring out the picture window across the room from me. Thinking. I am sad and adjusting. I found out recently that I’m in the early stages of Alzheimers. It became more apparent...
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Another Face
I always take pictures of the full moon (some, like this one, from in the house). The trees blocked the last full moon until bedtime. So, I took the camera in the bedroom and later took pictures...
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Unexpected Composition
Our triple window in the living room faces west. Sometimes I just snap pictures from where I sit on the couch and watching TV. This picture has a combination of varying elements: 3 plants outside the...
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Buffy
This is definitely a disjointed blog, and a sad day. Buffy, our 12-year-old chocolate lab, passed away over the weekend from complications of old age. She was a big girl, weighing almost 100 pounds....
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Oh, What a Sunset!!
I took 28 sunset pictures, all in ten minutes. We live on the east side of the highway and the west side of the sunset. It was amazing how fast the clouds moved, changed colors and changed shapes....
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Moon Variations
I was outside last night with my camera and was trying to get good pictures of the moon. The pictures weren’t good or interesting until…. I started experimenting. It was a full moon. I would move the...
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A Rare Find
My son was stationed at Fort Riley, and took my husband and I fossil hunting in the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas in October of 2003. The chalk formed from an inland sea that divided North America during...
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“Blue Crystal and other Discoveries
A “blue crystal” … I’m not sure what the light’s reflecting from. This piece of wood’s mostly covered with a variety of lichens and a couple of teeny pale red mushrooms. A yellow-bellied sapsucker...
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Resting Owl
I was taking a slow walk around the backyard yesterday afternoon. It was a calm, quiet day with only a few birds: robins, a blue jay, a cardinal, and … an owl. Only the owl wasn’t really an owl. It...
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