Tag: nature
group name: naturelovers
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January 08, 2007 09:48 PM EST --
This past Sunday I visited one of my favorite hunting grounds, Great Meadows in Concord, Massachusetts and I was treated to a wonderful, and somewhat disturbing (see below), display.
First off, . . . more
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June 06, 2008 03:21 PM EDT --
frayed strands of my heart
are played
with life's gentlest bow
the cooing
of a mourning dove
echoes my grief
. . . more
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December 03, 2006 06:21 AM EST --
When someone says the phrase "God's Eye View" they are usually refering to an extreme wide angle shot like a photo of the earth from space. But I think we sometimes forget that . . . more
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May 31, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
Out on the Cliff Walk today I stumbled upon a Bearded Iris and decided to do a macro study of it. Well, okay, there was a bug foraging down in there and that helped me decide to pull out the macro lens . . . more
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April 24, 2007 10:36 PM EDT --
Living in Newport, RI, hikes on my days off can be interesting. It's typical rocky, hilly New England here, but we're also on the Atlantic Ocean and so have beaches, tidal inlets, salt marshes, . . . more
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January 09, 2007 07:59 PM EST --
During the summers of 2004 and 2005 we were privileged to enjoy the company of a couple of tree frogs that would visit our front porch in the evening and chow down on little insects that were drawn to . . . more
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May 07, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
I'm 54 years old. In that time I've walked a lot of roads and gone off down some interesting-looking side paths. This journey we call life has been an interesting trip so far, and I'm of a . . . more
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January 13, 2008 10:43 AM EST --
Saturday the 12th of January turned out to be sunny with a slight nip in the air. I bundled up in layers, changed into my hiking boots and set out to find some cache I've had my eye on.
I revisited . . . more
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April 03, 2008 09:13 PM EDT --
According to Time magazine, nearly one out of three American babies born in 2006 were not actually born (31.6%). No, they were surgically removed from Mom.
As the Dad of two wonderful daughters, . . . more
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January 27, 2008 06:57 PM EST --
Today I tackled one of the hikes I found in the Weekend Walks in Rhode Island book I found at Borders on Friday. I convinced my friend Virginia (a fellow ousted exile from Home Depot) to come along. . . . more
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May 02, 2007 12:52 AM EDT --
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May 30, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
Louisiana: Sportsman's Paradise
We were all in agreement we wanted to “do something” the following day. After all, there are not many days in the year when my wife, son, . . . more
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March 15, 2007 02:45 AM EDT --
On Sunday it hit 60, and we decided to finally venture out to the zoo and the park near it. We walked along the creek that lines the park and I snapped various photos. One was this fallen tree that . . . more
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July 12, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
So, last week on the 4th of July I took you on a tour of the lower trails in the Norman Bird Sanctuary (see the article here). This time we're back and we're going to climb (and that's literal . . . more
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July 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
The Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge was developed on the site of an old Navy shooting range and communications center. When I first wandered out there in the '70s it was still a wasteland of . . . more
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October 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
My day off and I head right for my old stomping grounds to shake off the stress of the week. Here are some of the pictures I took on my walk.
In Ballard Park the main path in the northern part of the . . . more
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July 17, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
I've made a faux pas, a gaffe, a grave error! I've been a victim of my own horticultural hubris! I have (gasp) misidentified plants! No one accused me of this; I accuse myself.
Today during my . . . more
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September 22, 2007 03:59 PM EDT --
Tiger lily;
refreshingly sassy -
freckled redhead.
more
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November 22, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
I went out for a walk down to my favorite hangouts in the south end of Newport this morning, and I discovered that the Beeches have finally changed color. Hooray! Of course, the Maples have been changing . . . more
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October 13, 2007 07:54 PM EDT --
BEWARE: SPIDER!
For those that are weak hearted...keen to stay away from spiders...you might not want to look at what follows!
Hubby and I were outside, puttering around the yard (I was, he was . . . more
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