Category: Nature & Wildlife
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Our Second Biannual Caption Contest
OK, so it’s actually been almost 27 months since our first caption contestPrevious. The photograph this time is not part of our regular collection, nor will it ever be, most likely. Nancy took this picture on our trip with Natural Habitat Adventures to Uganda and Rwanda in 2015 to photograph Mountain GorillasDetails. As you can…
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Giant Swallowtails (Papilio cresphontes)
For the last couple of summers, Nancy has been working hard to ‘branch out’ with a larger selection of (native) butterfly host and nectar plants around the yard to bring a greater variety of butterflies to the neighborhood. It is starting to pay off. Besides our Monarchs, we’ve seen more Zebra Heliconiansinfo (our state butterfly,…
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My Answer To “What’s Wrong With This Picture”
Background Several days ago, I showed a photograph and asked: “What’s Wrong With This Picture”. Here is more information. Nancy took this overview a minute later. These pictures were taken in March 2016 while we were on a trip to Antarctica. The mountains (and snow) in the first picture should have told you, “We’re not…
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Two More Eclipse Questions
While we are on the subject of astronomy, I’d like to share just a bit more about eclipses. Here are my questions (those who follow us on Facebook may have already seen these questions. Try not to blurt out the answer before your friends have had a chance to think about it): First Question Question:…
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A Nighttime Solar Eclipse?
When I tried to print our second 26″ by 36″ canvas copy of “Eclipse Over Long Pine Key”, the colors were as shown below. I thought one of the ink cartridges must be empty, or the printer had a clogged nozzle or something. I pulled out the roll of canvas, performed a cleaning, and did…