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051613: Washington, DC - Customs and Border Protection Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony.
Photographer: Josh Denmark
Marine Interdiction agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations patrol Miami Beach, Florida, onboard an Interceptor Class Vessel on Feb. 13, 2019. The Air and Marine Operations is a federal law enforcement organization dedicated to serving and protecting the American people through advanced aeronautical and maritime capabilities. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. The local pantheon of kachinas varies from pueblo community to community. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, as well as many other concepts.
Kachinas are understood as having human-like relationships: families such as parents and siblings, as well as marrying and having children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example. The central theme of kachina beliefs and practices as explained by Wright (2008) is "the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive. (Wikipedia)
Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the Area Port of Jacksonville, Florida inspect and seize items being shipped into the United States that are not compliant with intellectual property rights on Feb. 20. This medication is a knock-off brand and still requires a prescription by a medical professional. Medications like these are often shipped directly to a consumer's personal address. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
110612: Port of New York / Newark - Three CBP Officers search the outside of a container aboard a cargo ship. The CBP Officers are part of a large team that are dispersed throughout the ship to search and inspect it.
Photographer: Josh Denmark
John Wagner, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection testifies before the Homeland Security Subcommittee on the issue of international vulnerability related to passport fraud. Photo by James Tourtellotte
051314: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection held their annual Valor Memorial and Wreath Laying Ceremony in honor of all the CBP personnel that have lost their lives in the field. The ceremony was held outside the Ronald Reagan Building in the Woodrow Wilson Plaza. CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Kevin McAleean, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and DHS Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas were all in attendance.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agents survey damage caused by Hurricane Sally near Mobile, Ala., Sept. 16, 2020. Hurricane Sally battered the region and is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the US this year. (CBP photo by Jerry Glaser)
Customs and Border Protection officers and import specialists assigned to the Area Port of Jacksonville, inspect shipments of possible intellectual property rights violations on Feb. 21. Photo by Ozzy Trevino, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan toured the San Ysidro Port of Entry with Rodney S. Scott, Chief Patrol Agent for San Diego Sector and reporter Chris Cuomo from CNN.
Photos by Mani Albrecht
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Office of Public Affairs
Visual Communications Division
Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan toured the San Ysidro Port of Entry with Rodney S. Scott, Chief Patrol Agent for San Diego Sector and reporter Chris Cuomo from CNN.
Photos by Mani Albrecht
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Office of Public Affairs
Visual Communications Division
Original Caption: Flooding of Guadalupe River Produced These Fissures in Hillside
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-1966
Photographer: Reaves, Bill, 1934-
Subjects:
New Braunfels (Comal county, Texas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/544459
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A child walking alone in Galeshewe during the Launch of Child Protection Week in Kimberley, Northern Cape.27/05/2012
Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California. Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433), it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) forests native to the park. It covers a land area of 789,745 acres (319,598 ha). A large part of the park is designated to wilderness area—some 429,690 acres (173,890 ha). Straddling the San Bernardino County/Riverside County border, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains run through the southwest edge of the park.
The higher, drier, and slightly cooler Mojave Desert is the special habitat of Yucca brevifolia, the Joshua tree for which the park is named. It occurs in patterns from dense forests to distantly spaced specimens. In addition to Joshua tree forests, the western part of the park includes some of the most interesting geologic displays found in California's deserts. The dominant geologic features of this landscape are hills of bare rock, usually broken up into loose boulders. These hills are popular amongst rock climbing and scrambling enthusiasts. The flatland between these hills is sparsely forested with Joshua trees. Together with the boulder piles and Skull Rock, the trees make the landscape otherworldly.
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012017: Washington, DC - U.S. Customs and Border Protection's presence was evident as they played a role in the events on Inauguration Day, from marching in the parade to providing security. Seen here is the Office of Field Operations and Air and Marine Operations marching in the parade.
Photo by: Robert Frongello
Original Caption: Funeral at Rifle, 10/1972
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-10154
Photographer: Hiser, David, 1937-
Subjects:
Rifle (Garfield county, Colorado, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/552639
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Loading log truck. Meehan operation. Tillamook Burn, Oregon.
Photo by: Robert L. Furniss
Date: August 25, 1938
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology, Robert L. Furniss Collection; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: F-315
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
For additional historical forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Spofforth Castle was originally an 11th century fortified manor house, founded by William de Percy. In the early 13th century, the Percy family added a stone hall house, of which the undercroft remains, set against a sandstone outcrop.
In 1309, King Edward II granted, Henry, Lord Percy of Alnwick, a licence to crenellate and he founded the quadrangle castle. Sadly only the west range remains, of two storeys, with a hall and a chamber block, flanked by a polygonal stair turret.
The first floor hall, was modernised in the 15th century and leads directly on to the low eastern platform, which supports the buried remains of the other ranges.
The castle is owned by English Heritage but is free to visit and open daily.
Spofforth Castle History by R. J. A. Bunnett
In 1067, the year before the earliest visit of William the Conqueror to York, William de Percy, the first of the English line (nicknamed ‘Aux Gernons' - the Bewhiskered: Algernon has since been a favourite name in the family), arrived in this country from Normandy. De Percy was a man of powerful physique and strength of mind and greatly esteemed by the King, who gave him no less than 86 Lordships in Yorkshire, including Spofforth, Bolton Percy, Tadcaster, Cowthorpe and Wetherby.
The Spofforth parish covered a very large area, and here the young Norman established his headquarters, which thus became the original English home of the famous de Percy family. Within ten years, William converted a desolate waste into a fertile pasture. Doomsday book related that ‘Spawford' (i.e. the ford by the Spaw) was a manor held by Gamelbar, and that William de Percy had 4 ‘carucates' of land, 9 ‘villanes', and 10 ‘bordars'. The name of Gamelbar appears on several occasions in doomsday, and he undoubtedly must have been a man of some substance as he held extensive possessions in the Forest of Knaresborough. These were fortified at the conquest and a number of his manors were granted to Giselbert of Gilbert Tyson, another follower of William I and ‘great standard-bearer of England'.
At Spofforth, where for 300 years the family led the life of feudal barons, de Percy built a manor house probably rather by way of residence than for defence. This would probably have consisted of a hall surrounded by a wooden palisade, with one or two outbuildings.
There is an unconfirmed tradition that Richard de Percy, the head of the house, and one of the leading signatories of Magna Carta, held a meeting of the insurgent barons at Spofforth where the provisions of the Charter were drawn up in 1215. In 1224 Henry III granted license to William de Percy of the day to hold a market every Friday in the town of Spofforth.
Towards the close of the thirteenth century, the direct Percy line became extinct, and the present branch of the family owes its descent to the union of Lady Agnes de Percy, sole inheritor of the vast family estates and Josceline de Louvain, Duke of Brabant, a direct descendant of Charlemagne. The marriage was arranged, however, only on the prospective bridegroom agreeing to take the name of Percy.
Their son Henry, the first of a long line of de Percy ‘Henries', obtained from Edward II in 1308 a licence to fortify his house at Spofforth and probably at this time he began the extensive alterations and additions visible in the present building. The next year Henry purchased the Manor of Alnwick, Northumberland, from the Bishop of Durham. The family had then been established in Yorkshire for nearly 250 years before they began their more northern connection, and such place names as Bolton-Percy, Kilnwick Percy and Wharram Percy, and the exquistily sculptured Percy shrine in Beverly Minster, testify to their power and influence, and to the once vast extent of their possessions in the country. Henry de Percy also built a residence in Topcliffe, near Thirsk, the earthworks of which can still be clearly seen, alongside the Norman motte and baily castle.
It seems as if the Percies always preferred comfort and convenience to military strength and thus they lavished their wealth on building manor houses. Spofforth, of which there is no further record of renovation until 1559, was never more than a fortified residence, in contrast with the grim fortresses which other Yorkshire barons erected for their defence of the fiefs e.g. Pontefract, Consiborough, Helmsley, and Richmond. Wressle Castle was the greatest of their Yorkshire dwellings - a magnificent palace built by Sir Thomas Percy between 1370 and 1390, where the family, when in residence, kept almost royal state until the sixteenth century. As they obtained prominence and power in Northumberland, the importance of Spofforth as a residence gradually declined.
In 1377 Henry, Baron Percy, 4th Lord of Alnwick, was created Earl of Northumberland. Thirty-one years later the family lost possession of Alnwick and also of Spofforth, when the Earl, in a fruitless endeavour to retrieve the fallen fortunes of his son, the renowned Harry Hotspur, was killed at Bramham Moor in rebellion against Henry IV. His estates were conferred upon Sir Thomas Rokeby, Sheriff of Yorkshire, who commanded the royal forces. Hotspur, who was slain at the battle of Shrewsbury in 1403, is said to have been born at Spofforth.
A little later the Percies recovered their properties, but the 3rd Earl with Sir Richard, his brother and Sir William Plumpton, the Chief Steward of the Lordships at Spofforth, lost the lives at Towton in 1461, among thousands of other Lancastrians.
The Yorkists under the Earl of Warwick marched to Spofforth, plundered the countryside and burnt the castle. Leland states in his intineary, ‘The manor house was sore defaced in the time of the Civil War between Henry the Sixth, and Edward Fourth by the Earl of Warwick, and the Marquis of Montacute'.
The story runs that the heir to the now hunted Percies, a minor, was smuggled away and brought up by peasants (a similar tale is told of the heir of the clifford of Skipton Castle); but nine years after Towton, the family were reinstated in their possessions, which had meanwhile been held by the earl of Warwick.
The young heir later married the daughter of Lord Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke; but in 1489 he was murdered at his home at Topcliffe by an angry mob, and for close on one hundred years Spofforth Castle remained neglected. In 1559 however, it was restored by another Henry, Lord Percy, who made the place an occasional residence. Probably by this time it was regarded as too insignificant for the growing importance of the family, and Alnwick being now the main Percy seat, they practically deserted Yorkshire.
Spofforth, c 1600, was the home of Sampson Ingleby, steward of the family; but after his death, four years later , there is no record of further habitation, and the castle was finally reduced to ruins during he civil war.
In 1670 on the death of Joceline, 11th Earl of Northumberland, Spofforth with the other ‘Percy' Yorkshire estates passed into the possession of his daughter, the Duchess of Somerset. Her eventual descendant dying without male issue, the inheritance came to his nephew Sir Charles Wyndham.
The Percy arms are to be seen on the chancel wall of the village church.
Not Really a Castle ...
The Ministry of works taking responsibility for the Castle in 1925 described it merely as a Fortified Manor. The ‘manor House' would have been primarily for residence rather than defence; a wooden balustrade would have surrounded the hall with one or two outbuildings forming a courtyard
‘Indeed it seems likely from the general Percy practice and evidence of the irregular surface of what I still called Manor Garth that the present building is only one side of original four square enclosure!!' (extract from The History of Spofforth by William Grange Topographer 181-1896)
A short history of the Percy Family
1067: William de Percy, one of William the Conquers favourites was given 86 Lordships in Yorkshire, including Spofforth, which he established as his headquarters.
1124: Henry III granted a licence to william de Percy of the day to hold a market every Friday in the town of Spofforth
1125: Richard de Percy and insurgent Barons meet at the Castle to reputedly draw up the provisions of the Magna Carta
1308: William de Percy obtained a licence from Edward II to fortify his house at Spofforth
1403: Harry Hotspur Baron of Spofforth who was born at Spofforth was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury
1408: Henry Baron Percy was killed at Braham Moor in rebellion against Henry VI. Estates conferred to Sir Thomas Rokely Sheriff of Yorkshire
Description by O. J. Weaver and R. Gilyard-Beer
The castle stands on the west side of the village, on a small plateau of slightly higher ground that slopes gently towards Castle Street on the east side but, on the west, ends abruptly in a rocky outcrop against which part of the castle has been built. Also, on the west side are two small streams, one very close to the castle itself, which no doubt afforded a measure of protection, but the original aspect on this side has been changed out of recognition by the massive embankment of a now disused railway line.
Originally, the castle would probably have consisted of a number of buildings grouped round a courtyard. All that remains now is a western range, a two-storeyed building which, owing to the difference in levels appears from the east to be of one storey only. This range contained the principal apartments of the castle, the hall at the south end and the private chambers of the lord and his family at the north.
The oldest surviving part of the castle, however, is the undercroft below the hall, dating probably form the first half of the thirteenth century. It uses the rocky outcrop as its fourth wall and has four single light windows in the west wall, one in both the north and south walls and two opposing entrances, also in the north and south walls. There is a third doorway at the north end of the east wall, reached through means of steps from the courtyard cut through the rock and originally there was a similar stairway, now blocked, at the south end.
In the fourteenth century, a stone vault was inserted in the undercroft. This has since disappeared but the stumps of its supporting columns survive as well as a number of wall corbels, two of which are built into masonry blocking original windows. At the same time as this alteration, the hall above was either wholly or partly rebuilt and, at the north end, a large solar block was added, thereby blocking a window at the north wall of the undercroft.
The principal room on the ground floor of this new building is on the north side and has the remains of a stone vault, a fireplace in the centre of its north wall and windows in its north and west walls, the one in the west wall having been altered subsequently to form a doorway. At the north east corner there is a doorway to a smaller, subsidiary chamber, and a second doorway at the south-west corner leads to the adjoining room on the south, which is also vaulted and must have served as a form of lobby. Originally, it had a doorway in the west wall with a window above, the doorway being later blocked and the window altered. The third and smaller doorway in the large chamber leads to a newel staircase in the corner turret giving access to the rooms above.
On the upper floor of the solar block there is, as below, a large chamber on the north side with three handsome two-light windows and a doorway in the north east corner to a subsidiary chamber containing a garderobe at the north end of its east wall. The pit of this garderobe may be seen at the foot of the wall. There is no evidence now of a fireplace but this may have been in the vanished south wall of the main chamber or, alternatively there may have been a central hearth.
The room between this large chamber and the hall was probably at first a chapel with a richly moulded window in its west wall, but there is evidence that it was converted later into a chamber with a garderobe in the thickness of the east wall. Also on the east side is a passage, now mostly destroyed, which gave access from the hall to the upper rooms of the solar block.
The hall in its present form is mainly fifteenth century. Nothing survives of the original hall, which is probably smaller in width, and all that remain of the fourteenth-century alterations are the south wall and the doorway and adjoining masonry in the north east corner. The east and west walls with their large two light windows are fifteenth century and so is the greater part of the north wall which has the remains of a fireplace at its centre. At the north end of the west wall is a garderobe reached by means of a wall passage from the most northerly of the four windows.
The entrance to the hall is at the south end of the east wall and, next to this, there is a doorway of sixteenth century date, which probably led to the now vanished buttery and kitchens.
On the east wall of the solar block are the marks of later farm buildings, now removed, which represent the last phase of the castle's occupation.
East again, the ground is generally uneven and here there may be foundations of other buildings of which ate present nothing is known.
U.S. Air Force fire protection specialists from the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing brief door breaching techniques using Halligan Bars and axes at the Federal Air Marshal Training Center shoot house on March 11, 2014. The shoot house is located at the Federal Aviation Administration's William J. Hughes Technical Center, N.J. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht/Released)
By Lori Yerdon
USAG Humphreys Public Affairs
HUMPHREYS GARRISON — The sound of the Mass Notification System or Giant Voice, “Exercise, Exercise, Exercise,” echoed throughout the installation as the garrison participated in an Adaptive Focus Force Protection exercise here, Nov. 15 to 19.
During the three-day exercise, the garrison staff was put to the test by more than 30 antiterrorism and force protection evaluators from the U.S. Forces Korea J3/4 staff, Eighth Army and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
The Adaptive Focus exercise is a USFK driven requirement that gives the USFK commander an idea of a garrison’s capabilities and preparedness level, should an incident happen.
“During this exercise, members of the USFK J3/4 staff and their team did an assessment on the garrison,” said Mark Cox, director of the garrison’s Directorate of Plans, Training Mobilization and Security. “The team also evaluated our partnership with the mission units to see how effective our response was to several hazards, antiterrorism and force protection-type incidents.”
For approximately three days, the assessment team ran scenario-driven events on the garrison to see how the first responders, mission units and garrison staff were synchronized and how each of the organizations would respond. These incidents included one involving a biological-type scenario along with one involving an active shooter on the installation.
Adaptive Focus exercises are conducted approximately every two years and this is the first year the garrison fully implemented force protection measures that directly impacted community members.
“We wanted to close the gates because that’s a measure that could happen should a real world incident happen,” said Randall Pryor, the Humphreys Garrison Antiterrorism Officer. “We wanted to practice procedures that in turn would provide our team with better training.”
Several times during the exercise community members experienced traffic delays, gate closures and blocked roads, but Cox said all of the measures taken were required and provided invaluable training for all involved.
“The exercise was hard not only on the garrison and mission units being evaluated, it was hard on the community as well,” Cox said. “We were able to execute multiple force protection measures that we ordinarily don’t have the opportunity to practice because they (the measures) are cumbersome to the community. We really appreciate the community’s cooperation and patience with us as we went through this hard, yet necessary, exercise.”
All U.S. military garrisons on the peninsula – Army, Air Force and Navy – participate in Adaptive Focus exercises and for members of the garrison staff, the training and evaluation are key components to an effective antiterrorism and force protection program.
“What we don’t want to happen is if we have a real-world event, we don’t want to wait until an incident occurs before we rehearse and are prepared to respond and handle the situation.”
For more information on the Humphreys Garrison Antiterrorism and Force Protection program, visit humphreys.korea.army.mil/iwatch or call 754-6338.
Courtesy photos by Patricia Chavez, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Public Affairs
For more information on U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys and living and working in Korea visit: USAG-Humphreys' official web site or check out our online videos.
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Rethymnon Crete
the fortress is high on a cliff overlooking the ocean - serious protection intended...
Ground protection soldiers extending around a supposed helicopter landing site to protect it, during their commander course.
Photo by: Carmel Horowitz.
חיילי הגנה הקרקעית מתרסים מסביב לאתר נחיתת מסויק כביכול, במהלך קורס המפקדים שלהם.
צילום: כרמל הורוביץ.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Air and Marine, Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) Deming New Mexico.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Recognising that hosting mega sport events may pose risks to children, UNICEF and Save the Dream collaborated to promote integrity, child protection, safety and security in sport. Our Ambassador Alessandro Del Piero visited Rio de Janeiro in the second year of the project.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) technicians are working with state and local partners; businesses and residents to stop the spread of the spotted lanternfly* a destructive insect that feeds on a wide range of fruit, ornamental, and hardwood trees, including grapes, apples, walnut, and oak; a serious threat to the United States' agriculture and natural resources, such as in Reading, Pennsylvania, on August 30, 2018. The pest damages plants as it sucks sap from branches, stems, and tree trunks. The repeated feedings leave the tree bark with dark scars. Spotted lanternfly also excretes a sticky fluid, which promotes mold growth and further weakens plants and puts our agriculture and forests at risk. Native to Asia, the spotted lanternfly has no natural enemies in North America. it's free to multiply and ravage orchards, vineyards, and wooded areas. The invasive insect was first detected in the United States in Pennsylvania in 2014, and has now spread to several states, by people who accidentally move infested material or items containing egg masses. Most states are at risk of the pest. USDA and our state and local partners are working hard to stop the spread of this invasive pest. Look for signs of spotted lanternfly. Inspect your trees and plants for young spotted lanternfly, adults, and egg masses. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
*Adult spotted lanternflies are approximately 1 inch long and one-half inch wide, and they have large and visually striking wings. Their forewings are light brown with black spots at the front and a speckled band at the rear. Their hind wings are scarlet with black spots at the front and white and black bars at the rear. Their abdomen is yellow with black bars. Nymphs in their early stages of development appear black with white spots and turn to a red phase before becoming adults. Egg masses are yellowish-brown in color, covered with a gray, waxy coating prior to hatching. Look for nymphs, adults, and eggs on trees. The Tree of Heaven is the preferred tree. Spotted lanternfly lay their eggs on a variety of smooth surfaces. Look for egg masses (which are off-white to grey and textured patches) on tree bark, vehicles, buildings, and outdoor items.
Find it, report it!
Contact your State Department of Agriculture or the Extension specialist near you to report signs of spotted lanternfly. If possible, take a picture or capture the insect in alcohol.
Stop the Spread
Everyone can play a role in stopping the spread of spotted lanternfly
Remove and Destroy
Crush nymph and adult spotted lanternflies. Scrape egg masses into hand sanitizer or rubbing alcohol.
For more information about the Spotted Lanternfly, please see www.aphis.usda.gov/hungrypests/slf
For more information about the Tree of Heaven, please see www.nps.gov/shen/learn/nature/tree-of-heaven.htm
I believe this is one of the most fotographed doors in Cuzco. I did not know this when I took it, but later on I found it in a book about Peru and another one about Cuzco and the Sacred Valley.
051315: During Police Week U.S. Customs and Border Protection Honor Guard and Pipe and Drum held a ceremonial performance for CBP families of fallen agents and officers.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Ken Barriere stands watch as part of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt's (CVN 71) force protection detail as she transits the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Theodore Roosevelt has been conducting carrier qualifications.
I seem to make the acquaintance of a new raccoon family each year. The 'kids' of this family were VERY interested in me and kept coming out of the weeds to check me out while 'Mom' sat in the weeds chattering at them to get their hind ends in the ditch NOW! Kids!
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