Category: Nature
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Mariposas
22 May 2025 Revisited a local favorite this week; the butterfly house at the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC. Scroll down for photos of butterflies and a few other creatures at the museum. note: Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. Beth and I always enjoy seeing the flowers and butterflies…
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Birding at Home
Backyard birds provide great entertainment when we aren’t traveling. Here are a few of our favorites from early 2025. New birds added on 26 April 2025 Dark-eyed Junco A late season snow event, unusual in central North Carolina, made our feeders very popular. A Male Northern Cardinal and a bevy of Eastern Bluebirds gathered just…
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Palatka to Sarasota
04 November 2025 – Monday Day 4 of 4 as we drive to Sarasota, Florida for a Pleasure-Way Owners Rally. We check out a few more sights in Palatka before driving down to the Sun Outdoors Resort in Sarasota. 0855 69,573 73°F Leave Azalea City Brewing Company 0900 69,574 76°F Ravine Gardens State ParkStill in Palatka,…
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Georgia Wildlife
02 November 2024 – Saturday Day 2 of 4 as we drive to Sarasota, Florida for a Pleasure-Way Owners Rally. We explore Kalmia Gardens and a National Wildlife Refuge before spending the night at Coastal Empire in Savannah. 0858 69,139 62°F Hartsville, SC Leave Dennis & Melissa’s Hidden Creek Hipcamp (see yesterday’s post for more…
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Comet Viewing at Kerr Lake
13 October 2024 – Sunday Beth read that a comet might be visible tonight, so we made an impromptu trip to a campground with a clear view to the west. It was a quick and easy trip. 1445 68,827 78° Leave home 1631 68,900 77° Boydton, VA North Bend Park, site 115 US Army Corp…
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West to Indiana and Wisconsin
22 September 2024 – Sunday We head west to Wisconsin, stopping overnight at Indiana Dunes National Park on Lake Michigan, then checking out the Ellwood Museum in LaGrange, Illinois, and wandering around a town in Wisconsin influenced by Norwegian immigrants. 1015 67,288 66°F Leave Romeo, MI 1155 67,341 74°F M59@I-96 Stopped and made lunch.…
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