Adventuring: A Travelblogue with Photos

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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Snow, anyone?

This one is for all the Blogit folk who have been having the hot summer... January 2007 departing Denver, Colorado Icy Cascades Creek Frozen puddles Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Mystery plants... Can you help identify them?

These were growing in the wetlands reserve in Singapore. I'd like to use a couple of them for cards, but I have no information for the card-back. I've been online and to the library, and bookstores, but I still can't find a name for these pretty leaves. Nothing with this coloring seems to grow... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

For Yellowrose, to go with her poem...

which you can read here: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/yellowrose55/ Sign in to see full entry.

Industrial beauty?

In the park where the Inchland moss gardens are, and the cool summer scenes, and the river source of many of my water abstracts, there is this stand-pipe arrangement that I think was installed 40 or 50 years ago, to manage the flow of an artesian well. (It's the water!) It isn;t very pretty just... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Just a face at the Fair... for our cat lovers...

Another rare visitor to the Thurston County Fair... Chain Lynx? Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Travelling near home: Watershed Park trails again

Davy Dog and I had a great walk on Sunday, about 1.3 miles through the woods. It is beautiful, this park, in every season. Right now, it is so summer there! But... Autumn isn't far off... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 1, 2008

There were some exotics at the Fair... like the Zedonk...

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Close to home... This is for the birds!

An eagle owl, featured at the Thurston Co Fair Barn Owl This fellow, of course, needs no introduction! Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Pioneer Park, Olympia, Washington...

It's beautiful in any season, this little roadside park with the Deschutes River running through it. Here's the river as it looks in the summer: Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Feeling a little froggy this morning...

(all these frogs live at the National Zoo in The Other Washington.) Sign in to see full entry.

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