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We’ve had a lot of rain lately, but I didn’t think it was that much rain...this image, captured one evening last week while the photographer was on a walkabout, brought scripture to mind...from Genesis: “...and the dove came back to him in the evening; and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf...” This dove probably didn’t have a freshly plucked olive leaf.
This week, we’ll start with something funny (well, we hope it’s funny)...something disappointing...something a little bit spacy...and then, well, who really knows? The Other Half uncovered this little gem in social media land and shared it with yours truly...it’s called... “If 2020 were a math...
A crescent moon was shining brightly in the summer sky Thursday night, July 23.
This week, we’re going to shoot the moon, so to speak. We’re kinda havin’ to do that because Plan A didn’t work out, as sometimes happens. Here’s a bit of a follow-up to a previous item... ...yours truly spent some more outside in the dark of night in what proved to be several fruitless attempts to...
Lightning flashed through the sky on Wednesday night, July 15. The lighter part of the picture was lightning, which I somehow managed to photograph.
It was a dark and stormy night... Before we get to the good stuff, just wanted to ask: has anybody managed to spot the comet which is supposed to have been visible in the early morning...and early in the night...sky? From what I understand, the comet is called something like C/2020 F3 NEOWISE*....
This week is going to be about trying to tie up some loose ends...well, as best as one can do in the midst of a pandemic. Seems like you just about have a loose end tied up, and the other end starts to unravel... Don’t know about you, but before the pandemic started, yours truly sometimes wondered...
A cicada...and a cicada shell...just kind of creepy looking...
Went home early last Thursday after another grueling morning of toil at The Paragraph Factory which involved various combinations of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Walked in the door and proudly proclaimed to The Other Half: “I’m normal.” The initial response may have been a barely perceptible...
While on a walk one evening during the past week, I spotted a pair of rare root snakes. Root snakes are bashful creatures – they often hide their heads and tails in the dirt.
Thought you folks might want an update on how Bob has been helping out yours truly during some of my work at home adventures... Bob, as you may recall, is one of our two cats. Bob, in a word, or two, has a lot of personality. Our understanding is that he is a barn cat who was born in Alto Pass. Bob...
Cute little ones? Of course they are...spotted these young turtles basking on a tree limb in water at the pond at the Lincoln Memorial Picnic Grounds.
Lions...and tigers...and bears... Didn’t see any of those critters during the past week. Did see some young turtles...and a young snake...and some “Jesus bugs” of undetermined age. To tell you the truth, I had not heard of “Jesus bugs” until last Saturday evening. That was when The Other Half and...
Moose, a dog (the one on the left), is now Dr. Moose, and still a dog. Moose is a therapy dog at Virginia Tech. In the picture, Dr. Moose is with the HokieBird. HokieBird is Virginia Tech’s official mascot. Guess that makes HokieBird an okee, dokee bird. By the way, did you know (I didn’t, until Friday, that there’s a bluegrass/American roots children’s music duo from Minneapolis called the Okee Dokee Brothers? In 2012, the duo released a CD/DVD called “Can You Canoe?” The CD/DVD was created during a paddle
It would be kind of tough these days to not have any friends. That’s why I visited with Bearnard one day last week. We’ll get back to Bearnard in just a bit...if you’ll bear with me, I wanted to share a “feel good” story I ran across one day recently on the internet. Once, since it was on the...
If you can’t get outside these days, use your imagination a little bit and pretend you are under a canopy of leaves on a tree growing along the Quetil Trail in Alto Pass.
Thank goodness for the little things...and some of the big things, too... These days, it sure seems like the little things mean a lot. For example, last Friday morning, yours truly made a quick visit to one of our local retailers. Had to pick up a few essentials...as in Goldfish crackers. As I...
The “super” “Full Flower Moon,” as it appeared in the night sky over Union County on Wednesday, May 6. The space.com website shared that “NASA says this will be the last supermoon of 2020 after a string of larger-than-usual moons early in the year, in February, March and April.” Guess that means the rest of the full moons for 2020 will just be dull and boring.
WARNING: This week’s column is unusually long, which might suggest that it is unusually good...or maybe just more unusual than usual...so...off we go...  ...two bees...or not two bees... ...that is not a question...just an observation. We saw two bees buzzing around on clover in our front yard last...

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