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Camera Captures
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost The trail cameras continue to capture moments in the lives of our woodland neighbors. Here are a some clips from the past couple of months to Read more…
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Still Hanging On
Your growing antlers, Bambi continued, are proof of your intimate place in the forest, For of all the things that live and grow only the trees and the deer shed their foliage each year and replace it more strongly, more magnificently, in the Spring. Each year the trees grow larger and put on more leaves. Read more…
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It Really Snowed (and we missed it)!
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. ~Thomas H. Allen While we were away in mid-late January we got our biggest snow of the past couple of years (a whopping 3+ inches I believe). We were bummed to miss it (even though we were off on an Read more…
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Oh Deer
Everything pales in comparison to deer. ~Bill Vaughan After the ubiquitous squirrels, deer have been the mainstay of the triggers on our three trail cameras. It was a busy fall with deer frequently visiting the vicinity of some oak trees as they searched for scarce acorns. Here are a few other clips showing some behaviors Read more…
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Nutcracker
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You plant it in the ground and it explodes into an oak. ~George Bernard Shaw The trail cameras have been busy these past few months with lots of images of squirrels (too many), raccoons, opossums, two coyotes (finally, I was beginning to wonder what happened), a Read more…
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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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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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Yard Mystery
Experience suggests it doesn’t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. ~Lois McMaster Bujold I took this photo of a Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea) in May of 2006. I was walking around the yard looking for insects to photograph and stumbled upon this frog, backlit on a Tulip Read more…
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