Two weeks ago, the weather in Michigan reached a high of 60 degrees, which is a lovely temperature that made me want to play hooky from work to photograph this lovely creature . . . . . . and this one. I didn’t really play hooky from work but should have, because soon the weather went right down the […]
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I had a few people email me for a status of some of the bad things mentioned in a previous posting, and, not to sound impatient or anything, but that blog started with the death of Caramel the mouse, and guess what? She’s still dead. The blog posting also included the death of Hoppie, the
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This time of year, hundreds of Canada geese stop in to our lake each day for a wee nap and a bite to eat . They approach in the shape of a V or long row, land on the water, and then slowly spread out for a while. Many also walk around on the grass,
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When I first sat down to write this week’s blog posting, my intention was to celebrate the passing of the last warm days in Michigan until probably May. It was to celebrate happy things like garter snakes taking in the last of the sun’s warmth a few days ago. This one was all smiles, too.
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Amongst the wee problems Mark and I endured recently was the deflation of a brand new tire on my car, and we took that as a sign that we shouldn’t drive anywhere for a while. So, we hunkered down and missed the annual sandhill Crane Fest held October 8-10, and took a week to build up the
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The thing about working for the Department of Natural Resources and Environment is that some of my coworkers create publications about the environment, and sometimes they need photos. A couple of weeks ago a coworker asked if I had any photos of “aquatic vegetation showing the roots underwater,” and after explaining that I had not
During the first week in September 2009, a giant white bird the size of a great blue heron appeared on our lake. I grabbed my camera, drove a quarter of a mile to the neighborhood apartment complex on the north side of the lake, and snapped a few lousy photos as the bird flew off to
The problem with fishing is that when fishing goes well, fishermen are usually willing to share somewhat reliable information about their catch, but they often won’t give details about where they were fishing, exactly, and what they were using, exactly, and what color was working, exactly. Indeed, from the average fisherman you are more likely
Being married to an obsessed fisherman, I occasionally get to spend a bit of time on the water attempting to catch fish. Because “everybody and their brother” goes to northern Michigan on July 4th, we decided to avoid the crowds and fish a couple of local fishing holes. Keep in mind that “local” is the Lansing area,
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Blue penguins are about 16 inches tall, which makes them too large to be called foot-long penguins but small enough to be the smallest species of penguins in the world. They live in southern Australia and New Zealand, and spend their days at sea looking for small fish and squid to gulp. In the evening, they return to
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