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Mouse House?
With winter coming along I figured I would get a jump on cleaning out the nest boxes I built last spring. Since I was late building and hanging them I didn’t have any high hopes of attracting any...
View ArticleBiomass Direct and Fisher Stoves, Buyer Beware!!
I’m hoping this post finds at least one person who is looking into purchasing a Biomass Direct or Fisher Stoves wood boiler. If that person is you, please for your financial well-being read on....
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A Day in a Tree
I’ve been here before, many times in fact somewhere right here, is my tree it’s been a few years and my memory has faded with a shrug and a geezzzz…… “there it is” whisper, I feel embarrassed an...
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Observing the Woolly Bear
Just about everyone knows what a Woolly Bear Caterpillar, Pyrrharctia isabella looks like but very few know the later stages of the Woolly Bears life. Over the next several months you can join us here...
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Building a Barred Owl Nest Box
A few weeks back I had been searching the web for floor plans for a Barred Owl nest box. I had quite a bit of material sitting around, leftover from various construction jobs. I figured I would...
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A Promise
To some a bud on a tree is just a bud on a tree to me, it’s a promise a promise to return something the sun said on that last warm day of Fall I’ll be back for you to shine down on your branches to...
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Snowshoe Hare Tracks
It’s that time of year again, a nice covering of snow on the ground and Snowshoe Hare tracks are everywhere. Of coarse you have to have the right habitat to find Snowshoe tracks. Snowshoes, Lepus...
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Boott’s Rattlesnake Root
I love wildflower hunting but for me there’s one drawback, my memory. The older I get the tougher it is to remember all the hundreds upon hundreds of wildflowers I’ve identified and taken images of....
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Bird Feeders for the Photographer
If you just got started in photography eventually your going to want to take some nature pics. You don’t have to go as far as you may think to do a little wildlife photography, if fact you can start...
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Wildflower Photography Field Staff
Spring, what a beautiful word and after six months of cold and snow it can’t get here soon enough for me. These winter months have given me time to do a lot of research for our upcoming wildflower app...
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The Bird Feeder Coon-undrum
As much as we love feeding the birds last summer we had to put our feeders away, just way too many raccoons raiding them every night and in the early morning hours. Raccoons just don’t eat a little...
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Exploring the Pacific Coast Highway
All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go I’m standing here outside your door. I always enjoyed that song and my bags are definitely packed and yes, I’m even leaving on a jet plane. Ever since I...
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I call this one something flower : ) I believe it may be a white wood aster a.divaricatus. The petals unfurled today, totally unexpected on that. I did a side by side pic of the unfurled head...
View ArticlePage Jumps and Anchor Points Made Simple
There’s one thing for sure if your blogging and that’s that at some point in time your going to want to make use of page jumps or anchor points. So what is a page jump or anchor point? Simply put it’s...
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Waiting on the Wind
On the verge. You can feel the excitement you can see it in their color. Pure white, the purest the white of cotton, of goose down of impending snows. As so much life ends the flowers the grasses the...
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Woolly Bears and the Winter Weather
I’m sure you’ve heard the old wives tale about the Woolly Bear caterpillars ability to predict the winter weather. The wider the brown middle band is, the milder the winter. Well, since I didn’t have...
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5 Best iPhone Apps for Hikers
We recently had the honor of being mentioned in an article by Jack Charles. Thanks Jack for the mention! Published by Jack Charles on October 4, 2013 | 4 Responses If you’re an Apple-loving hiker,...
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10 Things to do with your used Christmas Tree
Once again Christmas has come and gone and the one thing left you can’t return sadly is the tree. Rather than just toss it out to the curb here are 10 environmentally friendly things you can turn that...
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Feline or Canine? How to Identify their Tracks
Canine and Feline tracks are probably the most confusing tracks you’ll find yet with just a little knowledge you can be an expert at identifying each. Carefully studying the image below you should be...
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