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Flicker

Posted in Birds, Fern on July 25, 2007 | 11 Comments »

Jayne asked me to “come out and play” so I thought I’d pop my head up for a minute and post a Flicker I saw last week eating ants in my lawn. Photos aren’t that good because she was far out in the lawn. I figure it’s a she because I don’t see [...]

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Peregrine Falcon

Posted in Arizona, Birds on July 17, 2007 | 12 Comments »

I just read an article on Peregrine Falcons and their fluffy babies in the Adirondacks, along with keeping my eye on the Peregrine Falcons in Rochester, and remembered I have some photos of one up close taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Arizona. This bird is being taken care of by the wonderful people [...]

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Cool Stuff Happening Around My Home!

Posted in Birds, Plants, Sky, Wildflower on July 14, 2007 | 12 Comments »

Yesterday when I woke up at 5:30 the light coming into my house was a really pretty orange (my favorite color)! Before I hopped into the shower to get ready for work I went out to the kitchen to get a drink of water and lookie what I saw out the window! A [...]

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Life Is Good!

Posted in Family, Hiking on July 11, 2007 | 13 Comments »

I mentioned the other day at the end of my Skaneateles post that “Life Is Good” and now I’ll tell you what I meant by this! My older brother had a lifeisgood.com hiking T-Shirt sent to me, and I received it today!!

Isn’t this the cutest shirt!!

On the back of each T-Shirt near the neck [...]

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Eight More Things. . .

Posted in Blog, tagged on July 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »

I’ve been requested by Lynne, Susan and Sherry to do the eight things meme. I’ve done this before, so I’m having a hard time coming up with anything new, but maybe for the sake of my new blogging friends, I’ll repeat myself.
Here are the rules for Eight Random Facts:

Players start with eight random facts/habits [...]

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Skaneateles, Skaneateles Lake & Sherwood Inn

Posted in Building, Dad, Family, Lake, Mum, Music on July 8, 2007 | 9 Comments »

Friday night my older brother, my niece, my Mom and I went to Skaneateles to eat at the Sherwood Inn. I drove separately leaving right from work, which gave me time to look around Skaneateles. My Aunt Ruth and I used to hang out here quite a bit when she was [...]

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What Could Be Nicer. . .

Posted in Blog, Nature, tagged on July 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »

than coming home from work after *not* wanting to be at work because it still feels like a holiday, only to find a package hanging on my door, and knowing I didn’t order anything.  I knew right away who it was from! Thank you so much Jayne, you totally made my day! The [...]

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Happy Independence Day!

Posted in History on July 3, 2007 | 10 Comments »

As I’m sitting here thinking of what to write to wish you a happy day, my mind runs in a million directions, but it comes down to what this day really meant back in 1776, and what some of my ancestors and many, many other people’s ancestors went through to win independence for this country. [...]

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Niagara Falls State Park, Whirlpool State Park

Posted in History, Mum, Nature, New York State, Plants, Waterfalls on July 1, 2007 | 14 Comments »

My younger brother, my niece (her first visit to the falls), my Mom and I went to Niagara Falls yesterday. It was in the 70’s here which was perfect for going to the falls. We drove over to Goat Island and first saw the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side:

Video Note: The [...]

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