Author: Mike Dunn
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From Above
If you want to look at the same place and see different things, look at the same place from different perspectives! ~Mehmet Murat ildan While we were away over Thanksgiving, our good friends had family (their son and his fiancé) in town and he brought his drone. They flew it over their house and posted Read more…
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Stealth Fighter
The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak and stared with his foot on the prey. ~Lord Alfred Tennyson One day last week as I was walking through the bedroom, I glanced out the back window and saw something on a tree trunk just beyond the deer fence. This tree has fallen to Read more…
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Buffalo National River
On the river, time does not exist – only the sound of the rushing water, the cries of the wood thrush and crow and the sight of light dancing on the water. ~Ginny Masullo Our second paddle adventure back in October was on a section of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. The Buffalo River Read more…
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Keeping Current – The Wild Things
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. ~Ted Turner My only regret from our canoe camping trip last month was that I did not bring my usual camera gear to record some of the wonderful wildlife we Read more…
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Keeping Current – The River
The rivers flow not past, but through us… ~John Muir it has been a little over a month since our paddling adventure. I’m finally getting around to sharing some of the incredible memories from that trip. My knee has been causing some real problems these past few months so we agreed to try a paddling Read more…
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On The Road Again, Halloween Style
Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs. ~ Rusty Fischer The pause in posts was necessitated by another truck road trip and much less cell phone service than usual. This time, carrying our ancient (and heavy) black canoe (who has a black canoe anyway?) atop the truck to paddle some rivers in far-away Read more…
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Colors
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson When we think of autumn, we often think of fall colors, specifically the onset of the kaleidoscope of colors created by the changing hues of tree leaves. But there are many other fall colors to enjoy that require looking down, not up. Here is Read more…
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Things You Might Not See
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. ~ Francis Pharcellus Church It had been over a week since I checked the three trail cameras, so I was anxious to see what had transpired in our patch of woods without us knowing. There has been a definite Read more…
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BugFest Beauties
Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord. ~Thomas Eisner If it is September, it must be time for BugFest, the premier annual special event of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. In years past, it has ranked as the Read more…
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Butterflies, Blooms, and Bears
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~Hal Borland I headed down to Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge last week for an “end of summer” day trip (actually more of a “before hunting season begins” road trip). Read more…
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