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Frozen Food

Frozen Food

Yep! This is a post about frozen food. Just what you expected from this blog eh? It's not quite the Salisbury steak dinner or pizza rolls you may be considering now, but indeed frozen food. When I took our dogs out this morning, we had a pretty good overnight frost....

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Woodland Thanks

Woodland Thanks

If my woods could talk... November 22, 2012 Me: "Feels good to be visiting again, it has been awhile." Woods: "Yes, it has... since April I think." Me: "Well, you had a rough patch with those mosquitoes this summer, and I have been off exploring some new spots."...

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Nature photographs | Reflections on 2010

Nature photographs | Reflections on 2010

Continuing my yearly tradition now since 2007, below are my top 10 favorite images made during 2010.    Looking back at what was explored and experienced helps not only draw a map of where I have been, but gives directions to the roads ahead.   It is a long post, but...

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I see Sun gods

I was exploring some new areas near my house this past weekend where they have created a new hiking / mountain bike trail through my woods.   I don't know where my mind was, but I was seeing shapes that were everything but what the real object was.   And yet, I wasn't...

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Burning questions

One key aspect of my approach to my nature subjects usually originates from a question, or series of them.   While one may wish to be all knowing, it is quite hard to accomplish in actual practice.  Shocking I know. This particularly applies to the interesting...

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Reflections on images of 2009

Reflections on images of 2009

Just as I did for 2007 and 2008, I suppose it is only fitting for me to take on looking back at the year of images I made in 2009.    Most of them can be considered as favorites, but mostly they represent some significant direction I took with my photography...

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Northern Cardinal feathers

These images are dedicated to a male Northern Cardinal that unfortunately struck the back door of my house and did not survive.   I felt horrible.   Before I placed his body to rest in one of our pine trees that he so frequently liked to visit, I captured these few...

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November leaves

November leaves

As November nears its close of another year, I am reminded again of the change in focus of subject matter that happens this time of year. Color is certainly scarce now in Michigan. Deciduous trees are mostly bare, and many plants show their signs of drying up awaiting...

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