Tag: nature
member name: Mike Firesmith
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October 24, 2007 09:09 PM EDT --
The heat broke like a bad fever back in September, but Summer refused to truly let go. The highs still hovered around ninety and the lows didn’t dip far below seventy. The humidity hung around . . .
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October 26, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
which means the other half ends in death.
Lose-lose.
I'm going out for some tequila now.
I'll be back tomorrow.
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October 30, 2007 05:31 AM EDT --
If I could take you back in time, back to the late sixties and early seventies, I could show you some of my favorite trees. Our yard in Blakely had quite a few Mimosa trees, which are considered to be . . .
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October 30, 2007 07:50 PM EDT --
The weather is perfect right now. The high today hovered around 72 and there was a pretty good breeze kicking up. The project is nearly complete, the bridge part of it is complete, and now I have a . . .
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November 09, 2007 03:51 PM EST --
I found a large Grey Rat Snake on the mutt path in the back acre. Sam, who was still shaken over the firm yet unmistakable put down of The Wednesday Nigh Cat Insurrection, heeded me well when I told . . .
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December 05, 2007 06:27 PM EST --
The other day I was heading down State Route 94 when I got behind the thing you see in the photo. The vehicle, such that it is, hugs the centerline and that means if I want to pass it I have . . .
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December 16, 2007 08:19 PM EST --
The American had been wining the war, thought the war was won, home by Christmas and all of that. But the shelling began one night, in the cold, and the war was on again, and they wondered if . . .
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October 28, 2007 09:34 AM EDT --
The Full Moon does something for the mutts. I leave the back door open, and that does even more for them. It’s late, three in the morning, but I can’t sleep and they don’t want to sleep; . . .
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October 15, 2007 05:16 AM EDT --
During the very wet Summer Of 2005 we had more than our share of rain, more than our share and someone else’s share, and then we got a special bonus collection of rain at half price and then we got . . .
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November 20, 2007 06:46 PM EST --
I was walking around Fargo Georgia and stopped to take a photo of a hornet's nest that is attached to a house. I met the owner of the house, and while we were talking, I got these shots of a woodpecker. . . .
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December 04, 2007 08:30 PM EST --
Today i went and had lunch in the beautiful Okefenokee Swamp. Yes, Rose, this was taken at The Sill. It's a long earthen damn. As we pulled up, the deer ran away into the woods.
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December 07, 2007 05:43 PM EST --
To say that it’s cold out today will make some people laugh. It’s just under fifty degree right now and I suspect that in some places of America and Canada, not to mention Asian climates, . . .
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December 17, 2007 05:16 AM EST --
Back in November of 2001, I was out on the job measuring State Route 168 for resurfacing. Where it intersects with US 221 there are seven white crosses on the side of the road, which represent two different . . .
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September 29, 2007 07:21 AM EDT --
The Discovery Channel was showing a program one night about how the ancient Egyptians used barges to float their stone obelisks down the Nile on barges. These chunks of rocks would weigh hundreds . . .
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September 11, 2007 08:50 PM EDT --
There is a lot we don’t know. Even more than we know that we don’t know, we don’t know. I have no idea if this is getting through to anyone else. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20723212/ . . .
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September 01, 2007 08:06 AM EDT --
After August kicked us hard with four long weeks of triple digit temperatures and morning you’d break out in a drenching sweat from opening your eye lids, September brings the first sign of relief. . . .
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September 28, 2007 09:25 PM EDT --
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September 26, 2007 07:05 PM EDT --
The tracks we leave in the sand are mirrors to who we really are. We are temporary, shifting, eroding away in time, just as everything else is too.
The small covered . . .
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August 27, 2007 05:11 AM EDT --
Houdini was a grey tabby who lived next door to me when I lived at 108 West Force Street. Houdini liked me because I would feed him, because I let him come inside, and because I saved him from the big . . .
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September 09, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
I haven’t mowed the back yard since last month but it really doesn’t show that bad. Had I let it go three weeks in July I would be worried about losing the mower or attacks from feline predators. . . .
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