Tag: nature
group name: readandrateme
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October 01, 2008 01:56 AM EDT --
SO...I'm sitting out back with The Boys..watching as they chase each other around the yard. And what do I see? A huge Dragonfly taking a rest stop in the branch above my head. I run . . .
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July 20, 2009 01:15 PM EDT --
Lately...Everyday.. I'm seeing at least one, usually two and if I'm having a really good day...6 or 7 different Dragonflies. The blue bodied ones like hanging near the pond, usually there are . . .
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July 24, 2009 12:55 AM EDT --
Late this afternoon, when I went outside to enjoy this wonderful mild weather we've been having, I was prepared.
Camera on, ISO set at what I guesstimated to be the proper setting.
It took . . .
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September 05, 2008 04:30 PM EDT --
I've established the beauty of Moon Flowers but had not yet had the pleasure of sharing a bloom wide open...sad that this is the last step before the bloom will wither and die when the sun rises. . . .
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June 09, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
About 4 years ago, Gary and I bought 5 Earth Boxes after seeing an info commercial on them.
An Earth Box is a self contained garden, specially made with a water reservoir in the bottom.
For more . . .
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June 17, 2009 01:54 PM EDT --
AROUND THE YARD
Flowers and plants
6~17~09 6~16~09 and 6~15~09
There's a lot going on
Our Mimosa tree, which I brag about as often as possible
is blooming
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May 31, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
Friday evening Gary and I were working
on the trellis for the climbing vines.
All of a sudden he grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the trellis.
I'm glad he did, because I was millimeters . . .
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July 19, 2008 11:37 PM EDT --
Everyday I take a walk around the outside of the house.
Inspect the Veggies growing in our Earth Boxes and the other plants that have survived thus far.
I saw movement on the leaves of a Banana . . .
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September 03, 2009 07:17 PM EDT --
S'hrooms Coming Up
for Renda
Little caps of fungi
Proof of wetness and rot
FOR ME
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June 28, 2009 11:07 PM EDT --
AROUND THE YARD
6~28~09
Seems to be the time for pinks
to come out all a fluff
and
bright
For wild grasses
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July 31, 2008 01:40 AM EDT --
This morning Tanner, as per his new routine (one of which I'm not too happy with) woke me up at daybreak. For some reason this past month he's wanting to go outside at the crack of dawn. . . .
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August 17, 2008 02:14 AM EDT --
To those that wait
beauty pops it's head above the water.
A bud with promise
Open at last, our first bloom
Inner beauty of lily
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October 15, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
Imagine a day without your furry pal
Nor can I
Imagine a day without smiles
happiness expressed through the glint in their eyes
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February 26, 2008 06:34 PM EST --
Papa where have all the birds gone? Warblers no longer bid me good morning with their rapid fire hellos. How I miss that.
Oh...and remember how thrilled we'd all get when we spotted . . .
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May 01, 2008 11:19 PM EDT --
Macros of a visitor I had tonight.
My tiny friend climbing up the side of my Flip Dictionary.
Amazing, the detail I can see on his back..beautiful!
Here's the same little . . .
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August 25, 2008 11:29 PM EDT --
Every night I poke my head out the back door....looking for a hint of white on my Moon Flower vine.
Tonight I was rewarded with a lovely white blossom.
Stepping closer I see the bloom . . .
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July 20, 2009 12:45 PM EDT --
OK, so I was going to title this Love is in the Trees...but thought that sounded corny, and though I've been known to be corny I decided to go with something a bit more scientific for the lead in on . . .
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August 09, 2009 12:12 AM EDT --
WINGS OF BEAUTY
This one butterfly keeps taunting me, try as I might I just can not get a good shot of the wings spread out, but I like these shots
non the less because of . . .
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August 29, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
Summer means a lack of rain
which brings to hand
a fountain of city water
Gary was out and about with me and The Boys, snapping photos as I watered...
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May 11, 2008 11:32 PM EDT --
WITH SPRING COMES BEAUTY.....
CLEMENTIES - This is the only vine that is not growing in my MIL's yard. This picture was taken
at one of the rentals we maintain for her.
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