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Miles paused and then walked right through the middle of the puddle, but this time I had no pretense he wasn't gonna get dirty.
This is a reflection of the sun in a mud puddle. We didn't have an unfettered view of the sun at all this day. May 22, 2010.
June 1, 2018 - We took a drive through "Native Iceland" which was a stand of birch trees. Here you can see Gudrun opening the gate so our bus can continue on our journey to "black castles" lava formations at Dimmuborgir.
Box turtles are not generally aquatic animals. This one looked out of place to me sitting in a mud puddle like this.
Daniel at the San Pedro skate park on a rainy day.
From an afternoon out taking pictures with Orbitgal.
Yon stack of interlocking concrete blocks is picturesquely situated on a "lakeshore."
I would not want to be down there in it, but I like to look at it from up here.
It seems like everytime I handle scrap metal I get cut up real real bad.
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In downtown Topeka, Kansas, on March 28th, 2022, a view toward "Midwest Scrap Management" from the north side of a bridge on SE 6th Street, west of SE Chestnut Street.
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Well, not everyone would consider getting up at 5am to go sit in the muck beside a mudpuddle in the middle of a cornfield for a couple hours a relaxing way to spend a morning, but I have to say it was rather relaxing! With all the summer travel to relatives, dealing with tornado damage aftermath and blistering heat and humidity, I have not had much of a chance to get out and do a great deal of birding this summer. Yesterday morning I decided to drive out early to the Oatsville Bottoms of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge in Gibson County, Indiana to see what shorebirds were starting to come back through our area. While mostly Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers it was good just to get out and have a quiet morning watching these guys go about their business. Hopefully the weather will cool down a bit in the next few weeks and start to bring in greater numbers and variety.
Today we went out to get some shots of frogs jumping. Here's what we came up with... still working on keeping the moving frog in focus!
the poem that the title "for the record" comes from has the signature line, "my jackets in your mudpuddles." what's that? you didn't know I had a spoken word CD? indeed I do ... mail me & we can work out a trade.
•Born: 1552
•Birthplace: Devonshire, England
•Died: 29 October 1618 (beheading)
•Best Known As: The man who laid his cloak over a mudpuddle for the queen
Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the grand scalawags of the Elizabethan Age. He made a name for himself fighting the Irish at Munster; later he was introduced at court and became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. Known for his wit and womanizing, Raleigh was in and out of Elizabeth's favor. (According to a famous legend he once laid his plush and expensive cloak over a mud puddle so that the Queen's feet would not be dirtied; the legend has long been disputed, but it may actually be true.) He also organized expeditions to the new world, popularized tobacco, and found time to write poetry on the side. Raleigh was not a favorite of Elizabeth's successor, James I, who kept Sir Walter imprisoned in the Tower of London for years and finally had him beheaded in 1618.
After Raleigh's execution, his head was embalmed and returned to his wife... Some sources say on the day he was beheaded Raleigh was granted a last smoke of tobacco -- establishing the tradition of giving a prisoner a last cigarette before execution.
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