Category: Gardens
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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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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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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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Model Trains and Model T’s
08 June 2024 – Saturday Gibsonville, NC Visited Gibsonville to see the Garden Railroad in operation. A bonus was meeting a group of Model T owners who had the same idea. It’s a fun place to see model trains operating in their town park. The layout operates most Saturdays from nine to noon. Twenty-two trains…
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Backyard Visitors
Even when we’re not traveling, we still enjoy wildlife. Birds, butterflies, moths, deer, and raccoons are regular backyard visitors. Here are five quick photos from last spring (2024) that had been sitting in an unpublished post for too long. We captured these using a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 200-500 f/5.6 lens. Double-click on any…
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