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April's Blog: A lynx!
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Friday, November 9. A linx. Courtesy of Erwin and Peggy Bauer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Wikipedia. This evening, about four, I glanced up from my office window and saw a lynx carrying a dead mouse in his mouth. A beautiful animal that strolled calmly by my sunken window, eyeball-to-eyeball with me, about a yard away. It's nice living in the mountains. 30 in (76 cm). 5 in (13 cm). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog table of contents. A few ...
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April's Blog: A comet explodes
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Friday, November 9. Last night we found the comet. Cool. There it was, just below Cassiopeia, like Sky and Telescope. Said Looking like a fuzzy ball in the binoculars. After that and knowing where it was, I saw it with naked eyes well enough to direct Lanney's binocular search. Comet 17P/Holmes, November 2, 2007, 1:53 AM MDT (7:53 UT) Photo courtesy of Ginger Mayfield and Wikipedia. Astronomers dazzled at comet's brightness. Blog table of contents. 05 A s...
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April's Blog: Millipedes
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Monday, August 6. On my hike Saturday, I saw millipedes, their paddle-like legs flickering against the ground and pushing forward. The 6-inch creatures looked like miniature, brown freight trains snaking through a pass. I wondered how many legs they have. I know their name implies a thousand. But how many? A millipede, curled for defense. Photo courtesy of the Petroglyph National Park. By the way, millipede ancestors were the first animals to walk on land.
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April's Blog: A lazy weekend at Angel Fire
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Sunday, October 14. A lazy weekend at Angel Fire. Friday 5 October 2007. The day dawned in Sandia Park, cool and beautiful, promising to warm into the high 70's (25 C), and making us wonder, why leave? Although we had almost totally packed the 4Runner the night before, there was a little left to do, and we didn't actually leave until about 10. There's nothing left in the house," Lanney said. "It's time to quit packing and go.". Retreat at Angel Fire Lodge.
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April's Blog: A warm December ride
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Tuesday, December 4. A warm December ride. Just got back from a bike ride. Beautiful day - - high near 65 degrees. Going, I battled a north wind; coming back, I scooted with a tail wind. Mallard duck. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. As I left, a yellow butterfly fluttered in front and led the way. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Formica ant suspends a drop of aphid honeydew between her mandibles. Blog table of contents.
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April's Blog: Lunar eclipse
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Tuesday, August 28. I got up at. 3:30 I saw a pale blur (the moon? Buried beneath a thick layer of clouds, and thought, 'Oh, no! Not too hopeful, I got up at 5:15, and saw a reddish, totally-eclipsed moon. It was beautiful. I got up again, after the total eclipse was over, and,. The moon was half shining, the other half in shadow. Beautiful too. I guess I'll stay up now, and go for an early escarpment jog a little later. How often do eclipses occur? 15 Cl...
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April's Blog: Examining snowflakes
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Saturday, December 15. Snow on our mountain home with a warm fire burning inside. Snow fell all day long, covering trees and ground. Watching snow fall, Lanney and I wondered what a snowflake looked like close up. Sure, we'd seen pictures of symmetrical beauties glistening in the light, but would we really see such beauty, or would we see just globs of snow? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blog table of contents. 02 How many legs does a millipede have?
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April's Blog: A short history of my escarpment
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Tuesday, September 25. A short history of my escarpment. I wander up a sandy trail to the base of the escarpment, and clamber up huge, dark, lava rocks to the tableland above. I jog through waving, yellow grasses and gaze at five small, dark volcanoes in a row on the western horizon. How did the escarpment form? Did these friendly cones come into being? Over the next 25 million years or so, the land stretched, creating tilted ranges and deep basins. V...
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April's Blog: A hike that's turning into a jog
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Saturday, August 4. A hike that's turning into a jog. I just got back from a walk up the escarpment (. A broad mesa west of Albuquerque). Starting up, I could hear a noise, and finally identified it: high above, sitting on a rock at the edge of the escarpment was a road runner, calling its fool head off. Past my favorite pinion tree by a canyon and to the escarpment. A canyon wren sat on a rock on the edge of the trail down, singing away, until I got ...
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April's Blog: A few flakes
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Checking out mysteries and rambling through life. Friday, December 14. Photo courtesy of Jerome Mathey and Wikipedia. 11 December. By the time I went escarpment hiking, today, it was in the low 40's. Got colder as I climbed. To the east, rain (or snow? This from a reader hanging clothes outside:. Epiphany down my collar. Sun shines brightly while. Globs of snow cascade from trees. Not time to hang clothes. December 14, 2007 at 4:44 PM. July 17, 2008 at 7:48 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A few y...
