Tag: nature
member name: Jean, just the teensiest bit odd, F.
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April 13, 2009 12:06 AM EDT --
Well, my friends, just grab a glass of ice-cold Sauvignon Blanc with me, sit back and watch as the sun sinks slowly behind the coastal range of Northern California...
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May 19, 2009 04:18 PM EDT --
Of May and a Late Afternoon...
As the lowering sun drops down
below the ragged horizon
and the brisk, May breezes
cause the meadow flowers to ripple,
my heart becomes a butterfly . . .
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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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February 26, 2008 11:02 PM EST --
In the Western Zodiac, there are three dual signs: Gemini, Libra and Pisces and, while Gemini is usually given the most "press" over its dualism, it is those born . . .
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September 26, 2009 07:12 AM EDT --
About this time each year, we here in Sonoma County are usually blessed with a couple of weeks of "Indian Summer" (a fact for which yours truly is eternally grateful)...
As the harvest of the wine-grapes . . .
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May 27, 2009 04:41 PM EDT --
You may have pondered this question before... (Well... Probably not -- but, I ask you, how else was I supposed to segway into this article?)
Well, for one thing: Dragonflies fly!
This may . . .
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June 26, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
At our friends' house yesterday near the little Sonoma County, Northern Californian town of Graton, I kept hearing the unmistakeable sound of an Anna's hummingbird near a huge "butterfly bush" (Buddelia) . . .
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August 28, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
As I was about to leave the other day to run an errand a few miles down the road, I heard the unmistakable sound of the "crunch! crunch!" of dry leaves just across the driveway...
The scrub oak saplings, . . .
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January 05, 2009 09:31 PM EST --
OMG!! I'm SO EXCITED!!! :^D Our mated pair of great horned owls have been "back in town" for about two weeks now... I've been hearing them hooting at each other just about every night . . .
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June 23, 2009 02:32 PM EDT --
( Photo : My own capture of a Great Horned Owl. Taken in Sonoma County, Northern California.)
THE GREAT HORNED OWL
Possessed of extremely keen visual and auditory senses, . . .
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March 07, 2007 07:59 PM EST --
For 14 years, my husband and I lived in the same little house. It was a shack (I called it "our hovel") but, the rent was cheap, it had a large yard with huge, ancient willow tree and it . . .
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April 17, 2009 06:24 AM EDT --
Hi, fellow Gatherers! How's your week been going so far? Are you seeing more springlike temps where you live? I hope so! :o)
Today, here in the "wild hinterlands" of Sonoma County in . . .
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September 10, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
Note: Edited 10/9/2007 to include more groups on distribution.
While standing on the back porch, I hear a massive fluttering of wings. The neighbor lady has several large bird . . .
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August 02, 2007 03:40 AM EDT --
WATERING THE GARDEN
Today I stood for a while,
Watching the sprinklers,
Spray life-giving water,
Upon the broad, strap leaves,
Of corn in the garden...
A hummingbird lit,
In an oak . . .
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December 04, 2008 04:32 PM EST --
This little guy is like "my shadow" whenever I go wandering about outside with my camera... He was especially cooperative today:
This next photo is one of my two favorites . . .
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January 07, 2009 08:54 PM EST --
Late in the afternoon, I could tell that last night's sunset here in the "wild hinterlands" of Cloverdale in Northern California was shaping up to be unusual... I really liked the way it . . .
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January 23, 2008 08:26 PM EST --
Orange hues glowing
across whispering, dry,
lazy, tawny-brown hills
that roll away to the coast. . .
Spilling from crevices of oak --
Delicate, sea-foam green lace
wafts . . .
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January 04, 2009 12:20 PM EST --
Dreams of Iris...
Encircling brethren,
grey and white.
A little cloud set apart.
An island in a sky-blue sea...
In its dreams, multi-hued:
Violet-rose
and sapphire-blue,
Cathay-green . . .
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January 31, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
I posted another photo-essay a couple of days ago but, yesterday afternoon, I was able to capture the entire bevy in a couple of shots at the top of the driveway and I thought you might enjoy seeing how . . .
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September 10, 2009 05:28 AM EDT --
Here... I blended us up a couple of margaritas... Come join me on the front deck here in the wild hinterlands.
Now, sit back, relax and look right over there -- just above the western hills...
Shhhhhh... . . .
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