Tag: nature
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Joshua Tree National Park in January
Last week, my sister came to California with me to help me settle back into the new place and to help me out with the errandy type things that always accompany a move, and which are much more easily accomplished with two people. Of course we also did some fun sight seeing (which is also…
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Baby Panda. That is all.
Okay, so as a reward for (finally) having a functional (and neatly organized) closet again, I got myself up earlyish today and went to the San Diego Zoo during the morning BABY PANDA viewing. I’ll just leave this here… I would say that I could just quit the internet for today… but I really ought…
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Thoughts on Chimpanzee (the movie, not the animal)
As this weekend was Earth Day, it was also the opening weekend for the new Disneynature movie, Chimpanzee. And as I have every year, I went with a group from the zoo to go see it. It’s always interesting to go see an animal movie w/ zoo people because we see things with that perspective. So…
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Springtime in Hawaii: week 13 of 2012 in photos
Monday was the first day for which I don’t seem to have a photo, so I’m posting two from Tuesday, 3/27. This is my friend’s backyard.
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Floods and Fasts: Week 10 of 2012 in photos
This last week was a little strange for me. We’ve had a really high volume of rain in the last couple of weeks, especially this past week, and everything is saturated to the point of constant sogginess. Some parts of this island (not where I live, thankfully) and Kauai are under almost perpetual flash flood…
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The places my feet take me: Week 4 of 2012 in photos
I did a lot of walking in the past week and had many encounters with wildlife, some nice and some not so nice. Here are the photos that document my week. 1/23/2012 Last Monday was the start of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. This was the first year since moving here…
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Cleanest toaster oven EVER: revisited
So, if you’ve been reading my blog a while, you probably remember the Lizard Sandwich episode. If not, well… Here. Go read. So tonight I reheated some leftovers, went into the den to watch “Once Upon a Time,” and then when the show was over I came back into the kitchen with my plate… to…
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Winter Beaches — 2012’s second week in photos
It’s the end of week two of 2012 and I’ve got another week in phone-photos for you. ^_^ The first one (above) is from 1/8/2011 and is the ceiling at the Exchange. The mural is by Wyland, and I realized I’d never taken a photo of it. Now I have.
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Learn a new animal day: African wild dog edition!
Hello again, and welcome (finally) to Learn-a-new-animal-day! I promise this post will be far less ranty than my previous edition… Take a look at this animal for a moment: This is obviously a member of the canine family, no? How can you mistake it? It’s got the face, the feet, the tail… And yet one…
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Saving Songbirds
This happened two weeks ago, but I didn’t have time to write about it then, so I will write about it now. Two Friday nights ago I was spending the afternoon with friends who dropped me off at home after having nicely let me carpool with them. I got out of the car and discovered…
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