Category: Trip report
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Pungo Summer
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russell Baker It’s been too long since I have visited my other favorite place, the Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. So, with Melissa in Yellowstone leading a museum youth group, I decided to make a day-trip this past weekend… Read more…
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Our Yellowstone
In such surroundings – occasional as our visits may be – we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world. ~Laurence Rockefeller To celebrate our wedding, Melissa and I did something we have never done – went to our favorite place, without a group.… Read more…
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Plants That Bite Back – Part 2
It commonly chances that I make my most interesting botanical discoveries when I am in a thrilled and expectant mood…some rare plant which for some reason has occupied a strangely prominent place in my thoughts for some time will present itself. My expectation ripens to discovery. I am prepared for strange things. ~Henry David Thoreau,… Read more…
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Plants That Bite Back
The great wonder of the vegetable kingdom is a very curious unknown species of Sensitive. It is a dwarf plant. The leaves are like a narrow segment of a sphere, consisting of two parts, like the cap of a spring purse, the concave part outwards, each of which falls back with indented edges (like an… Read more…
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Bears and Butterflies
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain I think that sentiment is one of Melissa’s primary views of how to live a life. But, even she was a bit reluctant to head out early… Read more…
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Green Shelters
The distinctive roar of the longleaf was the sound the evening breeze made, and the odor of pine resin was the smell of the countryside…It was so much a part of their lives, so wound up with everything it meant to be southern, that it was as impossible to discern its influence as it was… Read more…
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Crispy Cocoon
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. ~Friedrich Nietzche Last weekend we once again camped at Jones Lake State Park as part of an exploratory trip to the Green Swamp and surroundings. As we drove in, the campground looked quite different from last year at this time – it had been burned. The… Read more…
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Feeling Alive
Go where you feel most alive. ~Author unknown I have been missing my usual winter routine of several trips down east. Schedules have been busy, and this thing called work has a way of occupying a lot of your time! So, last week we decided to make a day-trip to my favorite spots in North… Read more…
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Heron Dreams
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau We all have dreams, some bigger than others. I dream of experiences, being in wild places, and seeing the spectacles that nature has to offer. I have often wondered if other species dream. Having had dogs much of… Read more…
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Haw-inspiring Hike
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it. ― Alec Wilkinson I must give credit to our friend, Bill, for the title of this post (hope he doesn’t mind). He… Read more…
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