Month: October 2012
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy and Travel Theme: Animals
As I started to pull together photos for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, finding those images that reflect what makes me “Happy,” I noticed a recurrent theme — the pets who have been part of our family throughout the years. So often, they were part of the happy memory, frozen in time through a snapshot. We believe…
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Tongue, Anyone? ~ Buffalo: The Better Red Meat
Given my passion for animals and nature, I would like to be able to say that I cannot bring myself to eat my fellow earth creatures. I have to be honest, though . . . I love a good steak. If it leaves a pool of red on the plate, even better. (Have I already…
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Judge C.R. Magney State Park: More than Devil’s Kettle
Many of Minnesota’s beautiful state parks become known for one particular feature or trail. In the case of Judge C.R. Magney State Park, the Devil’s Kettle waterfall is usually the “can’t miss” sight. When the water is running high, as it was when I took the first few photos back in the fall of 2007…
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Winter Storm Watch? Really??
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for several counties in northern Minnesota. Snow may start to fly Thursday evening, with six inches of snow on the ground before Friday is done. Well, it is October now . . . but, couldn’t we at least let the leaves fall off of the trees…
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Keep Curiosity Alive
“I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt This photo was taken on a cold day in February a…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 