Tag: NC
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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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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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Traveling through Tennessee to Home
10 October 2023 – Tuesday 0845 62,364 58° Leave Milan City Park 0917 62,384 59° Junction 104 and 40. Route 104 was very curvy. I wouldn’t recommend it for a large RV. 1154 62,553 71° Rest area near the Cany River 1253′ elevation 1400 62,591 76° Sparta, Tennessee We pulled in to a Harvest…
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