Zander Control
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Whilst Albert was being painted at High House last month, I saw a strange
craft pass by and I just had to photograph it. It was a small
outboard-powered bo...
The Almonte Hydro Dam
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We visited the Almonte dam, the refurbishments are coming along. You can
see the development through my page here. I've watched it for years, they
began wo...
Birmingham City Centre to Tardebigge Wharf.
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A drizzly day today, now moored at Tardebigge Wharf.
Keith.
Welcome aboard our working boat Hadar. Pull up a chair and join as we
cruise the waterways of ...
Weekend Sale Finds
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The weekend weather wasn't exactly warm, but at least it was rain and
snow-free and just windy. A great day for the annual yard sale of the Nashua
area Hum...
A New Royal Baby.
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Welcome to a new royal baby - born on St. George's Day - a very appropriate
day - and so near to his Great Grandmama's birthday, everyone will remember
his...
Decisions . . . . .
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and how to make them? I don’t know how you would feel, but I find it very
hard to make any at all since Beloved died. Being the only one to decide on
major...
Adventures in India - Part 15 (The People)
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Dear Family and Friends,
There is so much more I could share about our trip to India with you if I
had the time. Tomorrow, I am flying to Georgia to visit...
The Siskin Garden Party
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Outside the window, a bobbing tail of the mostly monochrome Pied Wagtail
waved as if to say “Sorry, I missed last week’s photoshoot deadline for
infrequent...
On walking the walk
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I shared this beautiful quote by Dana back in February of 2017, when I was
still processing the ending of my 27 year marriage a few months prior. It
mea...
I've become one with Florida...
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First buds on my beautiful cymbidium orchid
beginning to bloom...
I'm beyond amazed...
Then, to my surprise my plumeria starts are
beginning to send out...
February 2018 Kitchen Garden Guide
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Today, 800 million people around the globe are engaged in urban
agriculture, which can produce up to 15 times more food than a rural plot
of the same siz...
Green
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There are times when all I remember of my dreams is the colour green. Neither
detail nor narrative survives my awakening, but a colour does. And even
...
You Came, (Am) Happy
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The first contact with a rickshaw on a crowded and noisy Mumbai road, from
the time you hail it as it rolls along the road and you get a look at the
ricksh...
Beautiful
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So don't say to me..."you're not beautiful, so never ask me to tell you
that you are..because if I tried you'd know I was lying."
Don't fault me for your ...
So I lie to make excuses
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No, I don't. It's just that I can't get this song out of my head. The
lyrics have nothing to do with me. (I don't lie to make excuses and I don't
tend to b...
Bullfinches
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*There have been bullfinches in the garden almost every day since
Christmas. The attraction for them is a winter-flowering cherry Prunus
subhirtella aut...
2017 just happened...
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So, almost a year has gone past since my trip to the UK to see Josh and
Molly, they seem to go faster each year. I've not been all that good at
taking pict...
FARTHER BACK
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LEMIRE FAMILY - GRANDFATHER IS BACK ROW 3RD FROM LEFT - VICTOR LEMIRE
KARITON FAMILY - YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS FRONT ROW RIGHT. INGE KARITON
Two years later
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I'm not much of a blogger any more, especially not much of a fish blogger.
My last post, A blank slate, was supposed to be my story of how I created a
new ...
Finally, Summer!
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"Summer afternoon -- summer afternoon, to me those have always been the two
most beautiful words in the English language." H. James
Though culturally we'v...
Peconic River Herb Farm
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It's finally here! It's Spring!!
If only I could rush outside and see dew drops on my ladies mantle.
Unfortunately most of our beds are still covered in s...
Omega
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When we take our first breath we are unaware it is the beginning of our
journey toward death. Hopefully we learn our choices have consequences and
for ever...
Wedding Season is upon us
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[image: Wedding Brown Red Little Sparrow Birds]
Wedding Brown Red Little Sparrow Birds
by Carole A. Barkett
[image: Wedding Green, Gold, Orange Autumn...
Happy 2017!
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Thank you for your lovely comments and goodbyes on my former post.
Also thank you for the many e-mails which I'll answer soon.
I think about all I want to s...
FIRST SNOW!
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*The island across from the cottage yesterday, just after the snow quit.*
It snowed yesterday…the first real snow this time around. What the old
folks w...
WHEN I in awesome WONDER
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*A CAPPELLA COUNTRY VOCAL BAND*
*HOME FREE*
Listen to this rendering of "How Great Thou Art" sung in the Austrian Alps
by this brilliant country music ...
One day blending into the next, punctuated by pain
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Well. I see that it is Wednesday. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. We shall be
dining at our favorite semi-local hotel, and coming home to read and nap.
Heave...
Waiting....
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Summer birds gone... Goodbye, painted buntings. I enjoyed seeing you, house
finches. Indigo buntings, I miss you.
Winter birds, not here yet. Sparrows of t...
~PINTEREST INSPIRATION~
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Pinterest...the online visual tool where one can browse, discover and
bookmark creative ideas from a worldwide catalog...I find Pinterest a
wonderful dist...
running after light to fend off the mosquitoes
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Over the weekend, I found myself able to head out with my camera at dusk.
Since my big fancy camera is in the shop, I ended up walking around with
just my ...
Trying to come up for air
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So far this week has had moments that have been kind of like the time in
California when I was ten years old and somebody decided I should take
another rou...
The (internet) times are changing!
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As you'll see my blog posts are becoming fewer and fewer as I'm
fine-tuning! I'll now be posting more on our Facebook page and on our
newly-created "What'...
WSD Calendar 2016 - 'Heart Of Giving'
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*Dear Animal Lover*
There is tremendous power that comes with the act of giving. Over the
years, there’s been much that you have given us. Be it nurs...
Happy Thanksgiving!!
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We are so thankful for all of our supporters! There is no way we could help
as many animals as we do without you, and we are so grateful.....as are the
man...
A Change of Seasons!
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We can feel it in the air, the beginning of our most favorite season! We
are so thrilled about it all that we will be offering our shoppers a free
gift wit...
deer.coolest moth. life...bone art. memorial day.
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a good portion of this post was made possible by sam's expert eye for
wildlife spotting.
sam...he's the one with the beard.
thanks sam.
"DEER ALERT! OUT ...
Perfumes and Other Delights
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April has put on her party dress. Dogwoods, redbuds, cherries and
crabapples are flouncing their fancy petals and the air is rich with heady
perfumes of...
Outdoor portraits in winter? No problem!
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I've been having a ball with outdoor portrait shoots this winter.
I love the muted colors and depth you get in the woods.
It also gives me an excuse to bre...
What, a new blog post??
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Yep, that’s right.
I’ve been driven to it by the hardships of my life.
Normally I can handle my self-imposed solitude; month after month alone in
the bush,...
The hog is back...
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...good thing too as I've just stocked up on a whole load of mealworms.
I think I'd best clean out and refresh that water bowl tomorrow. It looks
rather g...
Old blue eyes
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It has taken me several years to notice that my Orfe has got the most
lovely blue eyes. I still am unsure whether ‘Goldy’ is a female or male
fish. I thi...
The Baltimore Orioles have arrived!
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One of my favorite birds to host in my backyard in the summer is the
Baltimore Oriole. For the last couple years I have been lucky to have two
nesting pair...
Poem by Rolf Jacobsen
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Returning after a three year absence. So here is a beautiful poem
as a passport for re-entry.
It's by Rolf Jacobsen.
THE INVERTED SUMMER
There's a second ...
M. Gary
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I was greatly saddened a couple of days ago to learn of the passing of an
old friend, M. Gary.
Herve Gary was a local farmer and I often turned to him t...
Migration
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It's that time of year
when
most of our feathered friends
migrate to
better climes.
It seems that Blogger and I have reached that time too.
This will be the...
A VERY SAD DAY FOR AMERICA - NATIONAL PARKS CLOSED
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*In an extremely sad and sickening turn of events, our government has
finally lost its collective mind. Their moral compass is completely broken
and their ...
Nana's AHA! Moment
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I had an AHA moment last week. It was the kind that, when allowed to sink
in, changes your way of thinking from that moment forward. It was right
there s...
That's all folks!!!!!!!!!
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Some of you may have heard that Piston Broke has been sold and tomorrow
(Wednesday) is moving day. We have been busy packing and now the boat has a
bit o...
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Newborn Fawn
Years and years of wildlife photography, 1000's of miles on the odometer,
and hours upon hours I can never get back (or want to), searching fo...
My new blog
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Well I tried to go to Wordpress but I found it too difficult so I decided
to do my new blog on blogger. I already know what to do here so it made the
trans...
I'm pretty sure I can think of....
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...eight hundred thousand miserable things I would rather be doing than
raking, blowing, or walking on leaves!
But until that work is done, I can only look...
Stinkin' Cute
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[image: DSCF2131]
Her default character is calm, content, and happy but Bella became eerily
quiet last winter. She knew she was missing something or s...
The Age in Which We Live
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E and I went camping with some friends from church a few weeks ago, and
while there I was reminded of the bit done by comedian Louis CK; his thesis
was "ev...
In honor of Bernie
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This was in the paper recently to honor our mother...
Bernie's children (Julianne and James) have blogs at these two location
links...
http://midlifejobh...
Same World, Different Perceptions
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The article I'm linking to today, The Six Most-Mind-Blowing Animal Senses,
is on a humor site (Cracked.com). That doesn't mean the facts stated aren't
true...
Update
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If anyone still reads my blog anymore, you're probably wondering what
happened. It's pretty embarrassing I only posted twice last year, and
haven't posted ...
A Surprise Harvest
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At some time during the spring, I had some potatoes in the kitchen that had
turned soft and had started to sprout and, for whatever reason, it was more
co...
Back on the Leeds Liverpool
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As expected, we didn't do the Ribble Link on Saturday & we were told it
would probably be Monday or Tuesday but there was an 20% chance that it
could be Su...
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Since the Time Out Corner has been so quiet {likely cuz I got jacked by FB
and don't watch those peeps in RR6 much lately} .... if you have a post you
thin...
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*Autumn in the Waikato*
This picture was taken at the peak of our autumn just about three weeks
ago. Right now most autumn trees have dropped their bright...
Amphenon as Creative Web Design
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Web design is the art of creating web pages, this emphasis on creativity
and use of technologies such as the use of HTML, CSS, ASP, SSL, PHP, XML
and other...
Deeds not Words
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God made the illusion look real
and the real an illusion
He concealed the sea
and made the foam visible
the wind invisible
and the dust manifest
you see...
October notes
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Some interesting things are going on this month in nature around Fairfield
Glade. Here is some information on three short October subjects.
If you haven...
Transitions
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Found this old thing. Wrote it in September. Publishing it now. *Shrug*
Hello?
Hello-o-o-o-o-o-o....
Pssssst.... You out there? *cough cough*
It's...
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*NEW BLOG. NEW BLOG. NEW BLOG*.
*If anyone is interested we will be starting a new Blog about life after
Ubique*
*here.*
http://lifeafterubique.blogsp...
More Parsley Than Cash
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I was wandering around the garden recently, when the *More Parsley Than
Cash* thought breezed through my mind .. We may be temporarily broke, but
we do ha...
Animal Rescuers Answering Machine Message
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Hello, You have reached 555-5555, Animal Rescue. Due to the high volume of
calls we have been receiving, please listen closely to the following
options and...
York
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We spent a brief, but fantastic weekend in York. Though we left only 24
hours after we arrived we managed to fit so much in. Our plan was to begin
by visit...
Book Lists
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"If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need."
Cicero
(106 BC - 43 BC)
Readers may not be interested in this post. It is just a runni...