Tag: environment
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May 30, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
This is the third part, as the title denotes, and it is the last. At least for the time being. We still have a couple of iris that haven't bloomed, but, for the most part, they are in their full and . . .
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May 27, 2007 01:09 PM EDT --
Yesterday I took some time off and went fly fishing. I love to take a lightweight flyrod that I built, a 8' #2 weight and fish the myriad of small feeder streams that feed into the Bouquet River. . . .
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June 04, 2007 03:10 AM EDT --
Okay, so I finally got my New Years Resolution gift card in the mail from Gather. (it's my fault it's so late, I moved). And I went and bought two books at Borders. One was A Course in . . .
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April 06, 2009 07:49 PM EDT --
Earth Day 2009 is coming. When did Earth Day begin? Why have an Earth Day? The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. It was led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, coordinated . . .
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May 30, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
As I promised yesterday, I am posting Part 2 of my Festival of Iris. I do hope you enjoyed part 1, and that you get equal enjoyment from this one. My main regret is that I cannot transmit the bouquet . . .
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June 10, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
Over the past several months since becoming active on Gather, I have noticed the icons of many people... for the most part they represent the person they want to be or the thing that they most value . . .
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May 28, 2008 07:27 AM EDT --
Last week we started Unit 6, our last unit in our literacy curriculum. Over the next several weeks we will be exploring habitats around the world. Today in the morning class, I took the children . . .
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July 10, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Photographic Essay Contest
An early morning walk always yields surprises along the path -- small gems often easily overlooked, or large vistas seen in a new light. I don't usually walk with my . . .
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January 10, 2008 08:04 PM EST --
At the end of our backyard is a drainage pipe that allows water to go into the lake. The foxes are using this as their den. The foxes have been mating out back this week, so with any luck we will have . . .
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June 02, 2007 11:24 PM EDT --
The weathered winds that Marched through May
Set every creature into play
A furry flurry of emotion
Like tidal pools upon the ocean.
When all at once, the thunder clattered
And quiet pause . . .
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June 13, 2007 04:03 PM EDT --
Here's another couple of photos from our garden. The rose used to be "Chrysler Royal; it had the same color as you can see in the photo, but it was once a hybrid. Unfortunately, when we had a . . .
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July 31, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
The ice is melting..... The sea levels are rising..... True or fabricated ?
I read an article the other day that suggested the water table MAY actually decline if the polar caps melt since a large portion . . .
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May 22, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Whenever you need to propogate an African Violet, a usually surefire way of reproducing the original flower is to take a leaf from the plant and put it in a culture medium, such as potting soil, and water . . .
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May 07, 2007 04:55 AM EDT --
Folded demurely
Prettily pink on the lawn
Shhh! Daisies asleep.
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October 13, 2007 04:32 PM EDT --
Around the lake~
To see the season change~
In the woods~
The path~
The back of our house~
Clarence doesn't mind the cold water~
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May 18, 2008 01:17 PM EDT --
While walking around the lake I saw a fisherman, sitting on the bank. This is not uncommon as we do have several kinds of fish in our lake, and people do fish here.
As we got closer Mateo did . . .
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August 06, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
The funniest thing happened when I published a photo essay about my vacation to Mexico: numerous readers assumed that I was romanticizing the country or defending the hordes of illegal immigrants who come . . .
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July 31, 2007 04:41 AM EDT --
Tasmania is the only island state of Australia. It is 67,800 square kilometres and has a population over 474,000 people. The Bass Strait is to the North, Tasman Sea to the East and the Southern Ocean . . .
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October 15, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
This is what they said about the forecast:
Scattered storms across the area.
This is what I saw
Deep gray-blue cumulous towers
first behind the mountains
then hiding them.
This is what I felt: . . .
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May 14, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
This photo is just to establish where the rest of the photos were taken. This sign is in my boss' office.
As you can see, this avocado tree has had . . .
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