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Teddybear Sunflower – I’d never seen or heard of these before Napa    

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I live in the great American west, what do you expect? Full story here.

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At first, this just might look like another one of my many lightning shots. What you don’t know however, is that this is 100% luck.  It’s a daylight shot, and the only reason the lightning is in the image is that it flashed 3 times and after I pressed the shutter the first time, I […]

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Back on April the 18th I posted a couple of photos of these orchids.  Here we are almost 4 months later and only two of the 6 blooms have dropped off, but the bottom one of these three is in danger.  I decided that I’d grab a last photo before they are gone for the […]

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(edit – 8.10.12) Looking at a book about the Rio Grande Valley I  found the name of this creature – Flame Skimmer dragonfly. I took the weekend off from the mountain, worked around the house, did some studying, swam and relaxed. This morning I had a visitor and since he seemed to be willing to […]

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It’s about time. I looked in the archives and found that I have no photos in June, 10 series in July and 10 series in August.  Then there are a couple in September, and one or two in October.  And that’s that, that’s all you get.  I can’t believe that I have not had a […]

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