Author: Mike Dunn
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Badlands and Beyond
My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been. ~Diane Arbus There is a lot of flat land out there in the middle of the country. And not many national forests to disperse camp in it turns out. But, after leaving IL, we drove up along the Missouri River corridor and stopped… Read more…
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Getting Started
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. ~Byrd Baggett Okay, now to cover some of the highlights of our journey. We had roughly 3 weeks and dispersed camping was a high priority, but, other than that, not much else was planned. We had kicked around some destination ideas and the last thing… Read more…
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Road Tripping
The open road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it. ~Chris Humphrey I guess we finally decided to hit that open road. The lack of posts these last few weeks is due to our first major truck camping road trip – 18 days, 11 states, 5816… Read more…
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Caterpillars and Such
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and, like a dream, glides away. ~Sarah Helen Whitman Though the temperatures sure don’t seem like it, I’m seeing signs that Summer is coming to a close and Fall is just around the corner. The butterflies that so many thought had forsaken us this year are now… Read more…
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Return to Pungo
There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Waterson This past Thursday evening, Melissa participated in a Science Cafe hosted by her workplace, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. She joined a couple of other staff that had been authors of chapters in a book released this spring entitled, 30 Great… Read more…
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Long-tailed Skipper
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne Went wandering in the yard this weekend and I caught a glimpse of an infrequent visitor to these parts – a Long-tailed Skipper, Urbanus proteus. Long-tailed Skippers are… Read more…
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Woods Wandering
Forests are places where we can get back in touch with our inner selves, where we can walk on soft ground, breathe in natural cents, taste berries, listen to the leaves crackling – all the senses are awakened in the subdued light… ~Pierre Lieutaghi I decided to wander away from the house one morning and… Read more…
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Walking Small, Part 2
Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small. ~Philip Pearlstein Some more finds while wandering in the heat in our yard jungle. The first one was a challenge. I noticed missing leaves at the tip of a Virginia Creeper vine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia). Only the curved stems of the leaves remained. I looked closely, and… Read more…
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Frog Friday
You can’t tell by the look of a frog how far they’ll jump. ~Paul Doiron Took a stroll around the property yesterday, camera in hand, looking for the tiny creatures who share these woods. One thing really impressed me – the amazing number of spider webs that seemed to block my way at every turn.… Read more…
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Baby Saddlebacks
Relative to other caterpillars, slug caterpillars seem more fantasy than reality. ~David Wagner It is getting to be that time of year – caterpillar time! As summer draws to a creeping close, one of the things that lifts my spirits above the stifling heat waves is the increasing abundance of larval Lepidoptera. And one of… Read more…
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