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Hoot Owl Karma: Tongue Twister - Cottonmouth Caught on Tape!
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Sunday, September 29, 2013. Tongue Twister - Cottonmouth Caught on Tape! After a Saturday largely filled with cross country meets, English projects and AP US History, by late afternoon the boys were ready for a break. After a brief family confab, we headed out for Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve. For a quick dose of nature and the great outdoors. Agkistrodon piscivorus, a.k.a. Eastern Cottonmouth. Fortunately for us, and our loyal Hoot Owl viewers, Jay w...
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Hoot Owl Karma: Milkweed Chronicles, Monarchs in the Making
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Milkweed Chronicles, Monarchs in the Making. Summer is nigh in the Sandhills, and it's a hot time tonight in the milkweed patch. Those beautiful pests, Japanese beetles, are as abundant in the wild milkweed patch as they are in your backyard flower garden, and bumblebees abound on the blossoms as well. This fearsome predator, a wheel bug nymph, injects its victim with digestive enzymes,. For this is their one true calling as caterpillars,.
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Hoot Owl Karma: Where Have All the Pine Snakes Gone...
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Friday, August 10, 2012. Where Have All the Pine Snakes Gone. Didn't find nary an egg this morning, that chicken snake's back! Hung down from the roof of the coop and touched the ground, and that thing's way over six feet tall! Stretched clear across the driveway, couldn't even see where he ended in the weeds on the other side. Where's he gone. let me get my gun! Where has he gone? Where has she gone? Where have all the pine snakes gone? When will we ever learn?
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Hoot Owl Karma: A Tale of Two Clematis
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Friday, August 23, 2013. A Tale of Two Clematis. While walking the Endor Trail through the heart of West Sanford with Julie this week, our olfactory senses were overwhelmed by the incredibly sweet scent of clematis blossoms in the late evening air. This post began as a celebration of the wild clematis, a.k.a. virgins bower,. It was, rather, one of those pesky naturalized aliens we were discussing just yesterday. Clematis terniflora, sweet autumn clematis, nat...
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Eco Matters « Home Work
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Pat ‘n John’s new place. Archive for the 'Eco Matters' Category. Preparing for house cleaning. This a view from the front porch, with the front door open. The past week was spent with lots of odds and ends being completed. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, appliances, and such were put into place. Meanwhile, Pat’s doubled her focus; she’s now coordinating all the remaining details for the end game inside and beginning work in earnest on the landscaping. The kitchen counter tops were installed and partially fin...
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Landscaping « Home Work
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Pat ‘n John’s new place. Archive for the 'Landscaping' Category. Click for large image.). Earlier I posted on my personal blog that we had a big storm in mid-to-late December, but I’m just getting around to downloading this photo from the day after that big storm. The evening and night of the 19th brought lots of snow. It continued through the morning of the 20th. I used snowshoes to walk-run to Corey’s and back. (That was a lot of work! I got this photo later that afternoon. Preparing for house cleaning.
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Week one « Home Work
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Pat ‘n John’s new place. First serious snowfall ». We’ve been in the house for close to two weeks now. Although there is still a lot to accomplish, Pat has worked tirelessly on unpacking and decorating. Her efforts have been extended by a visit from two of her siblings, Elizabeth and Ernest. Here’s a quick sample of images from the 11th morning in the new place. Ernie waves from the table. Across the living room. Be Sociable, Share! Response to “Week one”. Feed for this Entry. 30 April 2009 at 7:34 pm.
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Hoot Owl Karma: Summer Peeper
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Sunday, July 19, 2015. It's high noon in mid-July, and we're melting in the midst of the milkweed. Cooling showers are on the way, but for now they're nothing but a distant rumbled promise in the still, hot air. Only a single flowerhead brightens the formerly blossom-laden roadside stand, though abundant new growth offers hope for late summer nectarers. A single stride brings us to the emerald brink, and a quick peek inside finds our old friend Pseudacris crucifer.
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Hoot Owl Karma: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing...Hickory Horned Devil
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Encountering Nature Through Lens and Pen. Wednesday, August 22, 2012. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing.Hickory Horned Devil. Nature, master of deception. Fearsome Dragon. Demon Seed. Gentle Giant. Hungry Child. The Regal Moth, splendid scion of the Saturniids, like its kin the Cecropia, Polyphemus and Luna moths, has only vestigial mouthparts. It emerges each summer from months of slumber with no means of nourishing itself, and barely a week to live. Fly, fly, mate and die. Sweet dreams, gentle giant. Tongue T...
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