Tag: nature
group name: itsoriginal
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February 23, 2008 04:25 PM EST --
We recently took a trip to the Butterfly Conservatory in Deerfield Massachusetts. Both the kids and myself really had a good time on this trip. There were so many different types of butterflies, . . .
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November 04, 2009 11:15 AM EST --
Digital Digitalis
The plant name comes from the Latin word for fingers.
A chemical in the plant is used for heart problems in the
medical world.
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October 31, 2009 07:24 PM EDT --
Halloween has brought an evil trick to Skidway Lake! The goblins have stolen our beautiful, colorful Autumn weather! In only one day of wicked wind and driving rain, our lovely leaves . . .
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July 17, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
I've made a faux pas, a gaffe, a grave error! I've been a victim of my own horticultural hubris! I have (gasp) misidentified plants! No one accused me of this; I accuse myself.
Today during my . . .
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October 11, 2009 05:59 AM EDT --
Join me on a tour of Aegina which is one of the islands in the Saronic Gulf. Aegina is only an hour trip from Piraeus by the regular ferry and 30 minutes with the hydrofoil.
While on the deck of . . .
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September 05, 2007 11:51 PM EDT --
Today as I was going through my yard admiring my lantana (butterfly plants) shown here. I have a number of flowering plants at the moment but this really seems to attract the insects for a drink.
I . . .
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September 16, 2008 07:41 PM EDT --
I had to look the name up after posting a photo and Melinda ~choosing happiness~ S. , and Angela M. were kind enough to let me know what they are. Angela M. also posted a very pretty photo . . .
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September 19, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
i took my daughter, my son, my cousin's daughter and two of their friends on a nature walk yesterday. most city kids are caught up in their daily hustle and bustle and never get the chance to . . .
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November 01, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
Yesterday I did a second painting at Quarry Pond in Flat Rock Brook Nature Sancturary in Englewood, NJ, taking advangtage of a beautiful fall day, the first in four or five days (I've . . .
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September 27, 2008 09:08 PM EDT --
We went to Huntington Beach State Park for an Arts and Crafts Festival yesterday. I was so excited because the arts and crafts festivals are one of my favorite things to do. Since they mentioned . . .
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October 04, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
I've been waiting ever since we moved here to SC to see some swans out back in our pond. Finally today they came. Here are the photos. This is my first time trying the embedded code, . . .
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June 21, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
This is the way I relax!!!
These are just a few of the brilliant sunsets I have seen in my life. There were quite a few that I did not have a camera to capture. There is something about the . . .
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August 18, 2009 01:36 PM EDT --
I am dedicating these photos to ANKIKA S. a member in gather who wishes to have been near the sea and hear the murmur of the waves. I feel blessed and grateful to live near the sea which is the love of . . .
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June 12, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
I may not ever be forgiven for this, but here is a recognition quiz. Pictured below is someone that many of you may know, at least by reputation and work. There is no prize, and there will be nothing . . .
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August 01, 2007 04:23 PM EDT --
I am so excited finally one of my pictures was in the ranking! This is a picture of some flowers I took while on vacation in Arkansas!
I love it soo much because it makes me smile because it so so pretty . . .
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January 27, 2008 06:57 PM EST --
Today I tackled one of the hikes I found in the Weekend Walks in Rhode Island book I found at Borders on Friday. I convinced my friend Virginia (a fellow ousted exile from Home Depot) to come along. . . .
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July 12, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
So, last week on the 4th of July I took you on a tour of the lower trails in the Norman Bird Sanctuary (see the article here). This time we're back and we're going to climb (and that's literal . . .
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July 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
The Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge was developed on the site of an old Navy shooting range and communications center. When I first wandered out there in the '70s it was still a wasteland of . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
My day off and I head right for my old stomping grounds to shake off the stress of the week. Here are some of the pictures I took on my walk.
In Ballard Park the main path in the northern part of the . . .
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November 04, 2007 11:09 AM EST --
Okay,the title be might of been misleading I admit however I am glad that I woke up early today. I was watching tv when the sunlight was hitting my plants just right. I jumped up, spilled my coffee . . .
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