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Colorado National Monument
Ambition
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Twitcher
Some time back I purchased a rather absurd lens; a 500mm f5.6 monster. Obstensively, to add a new angle to my landscape photography. I shoot a lot of intimate landscape and that lends itself to a longer lens. Some time ago asked what focal length one would shoot for
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Sharp Shinned Hawk Memories
This reminded me of when I lived in San Diego. We had a pair of sharp shinned hawks in the neighborhood. Their were small dense trees in our backyard the sparrows would congregate in. They would chatter excitedly when the hawks were around. The hawks had this perfect teamwork. The
Rio Grande
Rio Grande River
We have met our friends and together we setup our respective camps perched on the pinion-juniper-sage desert rim of basalt above the Rio Grande. Here the river runs straight south in a gorge it carved deeply into the basalt plateau. Behind us are the Sangre De Cristo mountains. The days
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Dolores River
Dolores means sorrow and for this river one can feel it. We camped along its tepid shores this evening under the sycamore maples with strange bird song and the sound of the river through the underbrush. High above us rise rugged rocky red canyon walls that reflect the light from
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The End of May
As May has now ended I feel I should give some report of spring here in the Idaho Panhandle. At least my impression. It was drier than I remember in the past few years. The lupins seem more numerous and even now are blazing the south facing hillsides. Flowers are
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Pileated Woodpecker Encounter
As Mollie and I left the car park to walk the track on the edge of the meadow, I could hear the staccato call of the Pileated Woodpecker. Similar to the Northern Flicker, it tends to be shorter and a little deeper to my ear. We walked the path which
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What Ravens Get Up To
They never-tell
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Pine Street Woods Spring 2025
Spring this year is lovely, strange, and worrying. We have had a spate of warm sunny days (not unwelcome) but very little of the characteristic long rainy days. Lovely weather to be out in and I have gotten much work done outdoors. It is a portent for a dry summer
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Imperfect
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThe earth is almost a perfect sphere So too the moon Our orbit around the sun is almost circular Is Plato to blame? This idea of perfect shapes Euclid spent time describing them Kepler wasted years on the idea We
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Small Rustic Table Project
I just finished a small side project. I had a cedar round that kept speaking to me ‘make a small table’. I finally got around to it. A slice of cedar log sanded flat and finished with spar varnish. The slice is from a western red cedar trunk turned to
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Neighborhood Watch
I was working outside yesterday on a sunny afternoon and I became alerted to a lot of cawing from the local crows. It was coming from down the street and I had an idea what it was so I grabbed the camera and walked down the street to check it