Where The Wild Things Roam…..My Front Yard.

I’m fortunate to have a lot of wildlife around me, even though I live on the outskirts of a large city.  There are several herds of deer that live in my neighborhood, and one morning, I looked out my window and was delighted to see not one, but three little fawns (feasting on my plants…lol, [...]

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We Got Some Rain The Other Day.

I suspect we will get more rain from the far-reaching “arms” of hurricane Alex.  I thought it was pretty though…..I like the rain.  I like how it makes everything so much greener, and how it smells after the rain.

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Interesting Signs

Have you ever seen a sign and thought to  yourself, “that is just too funny, or weird, or disturbing”?  I am one of those people who takes pictures of things that strike me as bizarre (typically it is a sign). Here are a few of my favorites……..  The strange thing is there were many park [...]

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A Happy Travel Story

In late 2008, a couple from South Africa crossed the Atlantic aboard the beautiful Queen Mary 2  alongside the Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s maiden voyage.  While taking pictures of the QE2′s historic crossing, their camera slipped and disappeared into the deep blue sea. In January of this year, fifteen months after the camera was lost, a [...]

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Kid Allowed to Direct Air Traffic, Brought Back Memories of My Air Traffic Experience.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35683779/ns/travel-news/?GT1=43001 So, I happened to see the news about the “air traffic” mishap of allowing a child to direct traffic, and that made me think of when I (not as young as the child in todays news), as a teenager, somehow got permission to go into the air traffic tower to take pictures for my [...]

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