Once upon a time, there was a man named Mark. He wanted a hamster pal. So he went to a local pet store and bought a cute, fuzzy, male hamster. Mark named him Little Buddha. A better name for Little Buddha was Little Biter. He mistook fingers for food and bit both Mark and me. A […]
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The shopper in my family is Mark, and a few weeks ago he received in the mail the coveted 30% coupon from Kohl’s which he, of course, had to use. He came home from Kohl’s with a new blue and white shirt that he liked so much he thought my dad might want to get one, too.
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By now, you’ve probably come to realize that I like critters, and I like them big and small, furry and feathery. But I apparently haven’t been very clear about one thing: I like outside critters to be outside and inside critters to be inside. See, one morning about a month ago, I went down into my
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I spent a big chunk of last weekend sitting in some gnarly vegetation and being chewed on by mosquitoes–one of which bit my butt somehow–and this posting is the result. The other result was scratching my butt all week, but let’s move on. The swan story goes like this: once upon a time a mute swan I
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This time of year, I’m in a bigger hurry than usual to get home after work, because this is the time of year that colorful birdies stop in my yard before continuing north. Some birdies only stop for a few hours, others stick around for a few days. And even though they eat food from my trees and
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While I was focused on getting that Jag out of the left side of our garage, there was a lot going on in the Great Outdoors. Amazingly, a female mallard found a great nesting spot. Right outside the left side of the garage. You might not be able to see the hen mallard on her nest, so here’s
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For over ten years, the left side of my garage had been occupied by a 1965 Jaguar, and the left side of my garage by Mark’s winter-sensitive diesel cars. Oh, I know my previous blog posting included me oohing and aahing about the beautiful crystals that had formed on my windshield, but on that same morning it just didn’t seem
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Just when I was getting really, really, really sick of wintry weather, I awoke to find something absolutely breathtaking on the windshield of my car. I shot the photo with Mark’s point-and-shoot camera before sitting in my car for a moment to contemplate things. I was at once bummed that I had to scrape the window and go
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Many of you missed Alma College’s First *Algae Art Gallery Showing and probably shouldn’t have because it’s not every day that someone takes beautiful photographs of algae, and it’s even less every day that someone has such photographs as part of a college art gallery. In fact, Mark and I figured there wasn’t another other
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My last blog posting featured my first barred owl, and I was pretty happy about my barred owl photo until I took a former friend out to my happy photo grounds and he one-upped me by getting this shot. Now, I was standing in the same wood lot as Roger on the same late afternoon 300 feet
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