Tag: cloverdale california
member name: Jean, just the teensiest bit odd, F.
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April 30, 2009 10:59 AM EDT --
Howdy, all my gorgeous, intelligent and loyal Gather friends! I hope spring has sprung where YOU are! :o)
This is what the clouds looked like today here in the wild hinterlands:
Kinda . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:16 AM EDT --
Like "my" little Anna's hummingbird, it seems that my mated pair of red-tailed hawks (and I call them "mine" because I truly believe that no one else is observing them on a daily . . .
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April 20, 2008 01:54 AM EDT --
Last night, I published an article telling everyone to take a look at the moon because (as it was rising, at least) it seemed just HUGE to me and included a photo I'd taken the afternoon before just . . .
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April 20, 2008 09:35 PM EDT --
I'm so, SO EXCITED!
I've been seeing a flash of blue in my front yard for a couple of days... At first, I thought it was a pair of barn swallows because, you see, actual "bluebirds" . . .
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February 08, 2008 01:49 PM EST --
Up here in our little single-wide in what I call "the wild hinterlands of Cloverdale" of Northern California, we have lots of birds that come by and allow us to admire them...
(I've written . . .
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April 18, 2008 11:13 PM EDT --
Just now, I was coming up the freeway from running an errand and I caught a glimpse of the moon coming up over the Macaymas Mountains to the east...
IT WAS HUGE! I don't know if it's completely . . .
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April 25, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
Well, today was the first day in three days that it wasn't cloudy or raining and I went outside to look at my plants to see what was blooming. Why don't you come along? :o)
First, I found my . . .
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April 26, 2008 11:33 PM EDT --
I get a real kick out of our little local newspaper here in Cloverdale in Northern California -- especially the "Police Calls" feature... It's a small town where very seldom are the police . . .
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May 14, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
Yes... Not 20 minutes ago and, yes, barely 5 1/2 feet from my FRONT DOOR:
THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a WESTERN RATTLESNAKE!!!
I counted SIX RATTLES on his tail -- making . . .
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August 01, 2008 12:09 AM EDT --
August Leaves
Russet phantoms --
parched and withered --
spell-summoned
by furnace-drafts
from Autumn's relentless Forge --
decry the Quickening... . . .
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August 17, 2008 12:27 AM EDT --
Okay... No rhetoric... No words... Let the photos speak for themselves...
As viewed from "Jeanz Place" in Cloverdale, Northern California -- without further ado, tonight's sunset:
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August 18, 2008 01:21 AM EDT --
Last night, it was the sunset... Today, it was THIS:
Makes me wonder what's on tap for TOMORROW...
;o)
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October 31, 2008 06:10 PM EDT --
It's been quite awhile since we've any appreciable rain here in Northern California -- months, in fact...
All that changed last night as the first soaking rainstorm of the season unleashed . . .
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November 02, 2008 04:46 PM EST --
After an absence of rain for months now, this first rainstorm of the season has dumped over two and a half inches of rain on us here in "the wild hinterlands" of Cloverdale in Sonoma County, . . .
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March 15, 2008 07:05 PM EDT --
I was so excited this morning, I couldn't CONTAIN myself!
One of the little hummingbirds that I call "the neighborhood lookouts" (because they always seem to be the first ones to start . . .
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June 22, 2008 03:08 AM EDT --
The following first appeared on Nov. 6th, 2006 on "WonderQuest" with April Holladay on the USA Today website.
A photograph I took that I call "Is that your tail or . . .
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July 05, 2008 04:21 AM EDT --
Well, friends, Hubby and I headed off for downtown (such as it is) Cloverdale this evening (me with camera in hand) to watch the annual Lion's Club free fireworks show at the Cloverdale High Athletic . . .
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August 14, 2008 02:02 AM EDT --
I bought my Canon SX100si camera about 4 months ago and, ever since I got it, I've wanted to take a really CLEAR zoom photo of the moon after dark... The 10X optical zoom plus 4X digital zoom built . . .
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February 29, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
I must start out by apologizing for not being around Gather too much in the last few days... I was doing stuff for my Mom and then I was pulling my hair out trying to get my NEW CANON SX100-IS CAMERA . . .
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April 16, 2008 11:10 PM EDT --
Every step I took today in "the wild hinterlands" of Cloverdale (Northern California) I found SPRING springing out of every little corner!
First, I wanted to check my plants . . .
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