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  • Monday – dead bird blogging

    Monday – dead bird blogging

    Turkey at the Fernbank, 2005 Everyone else blogs pics of pretty live birds sighted from their lovely home environ which has the kind of things (trees, food) that attracts avians other than asphalt-nibbling pigeons. But there’s no point my missing out on the prom, so I dug up a date. At the Fernbank Museum of…

  • The Ground Hornbill makes a gift of a magnolia cone

    Went to the zoo and took along my not very good digital when I should have taken the good one, but I’ve pics I’d not yet downloaded from the other camera. The not-as-good camera is fickle and there was a moment I was assuming had been recorded but came out blurred. I’ve written before on…

  • To Phoenix and the Heard Museum

    What I then did on my summer vacation. My dad had driven up to Cottonwood and spent three days with us there, touring around. Then on Saturday we went down to Phoenix for three days.

  • H.o.p. Enjoying French Fries at the Grand Canyon

    H.o.p. Enjoying French Fries at the Grand Canyon

    H.o.p. Enjoying French Fries at the Grand Canyon Light box enlargement Processed in 2009.

  • We went to Tuzigoot and Jerome, Wednesday last

    So, Wednesday last, we then went to Tuzigoot and Jerome.

  • Sedona

    My mother used to live in Sedona. We drove all of a few minutes over to it to eat at the popular Coffee Pot, named for one of the rock formations above Sedona. We had a nice breakfast.

  • Ruby Falls

    Apparently there is only one possible photo you can take at Ruby Falls at Chattanooga, Tennessee. This is it. You will notice that it was taken in 2003 and that it doesn’t bear my name. But it’s the exact same photo I took at Ruby Falls, except mine had a couple of water spray dots…

  • Not that Hobo Joe’s

    There is a little place in Cottonwood, Arizona called Hobo Joe’s Coffee Shop. 660 E Mingus Ave. My dad, Marty and H.o.p. and I were pointed to Hobo Joe’s by my mother who had never actually eaten there. I ordered the green chili omelette with cheddar and hash browns and biscuit. “Good choice,” said the…

  • Politics? What politics?

    We’re back and our fish are still alive. My husband’s father has been battling ALS the past five years and landed in the hospital a couple of weeks before we were to set out on a long-planned vacation to the Ioway Fall Encampment in Kansas and then down to see my mother in Cottonwood and…

  • Catch 22

    [clear] Catch 22 waving bye to me not long before I fled the theater my first viewing Several times last week I had an almost, not-quite exchange with laizzes-faire “well, this is unacceptable so certainly it will be taken care of blitheness”, variation of a too nonchalant “this too shall pass” which left me disoriented,…