Tag: wildflowers
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October 22, 2009 08:46 PM EDT --
Several weeks ago we decided to drive up the Swan Valley. Magi told me that the Valley was a "tourist paradise" with wineries, orchards, and unique cafes and shops. Although we did stop and . . .
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October 07, 2009 09:46 PM EDT --
Beginning each spring in Western Australia's Stirling Range, a fabulous carpet of wildflowers unrolls, including types found nowhere else on earth. July to October is peak flowering season. With . . .
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July 13, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
On our morning walk along the Genesee Valley greenway today, we spied this beautiful wildflower. Crazy, but in all my years in New England and Upstate NY, I've NEVER seen it. The blossoms are a lovely . . .
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April 14, 2008 10:47 AM EDT --
Yesterday, the sun shone through clear skies, and bathed this little mountain valley in a golden glow, as it rose over the horizon behind Lost Valley Rock. At temperatures into the '80s, it turned . . .
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March 22, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
The Ocotillo Bush
The picture on the left is a fine example of the ocotillo or Fouquieria Splendens, a spiny flowering bush that grows in the Anza-Borrego Desert in San Diego County. The picture was . . .
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June 10, 2009 10:41 PM EDT --
Good evening all my wonderful, beautiful and (of course) artistic and intelligent Gather friends! Hope your summer is being warmer than OUR summer here in the wild hinterlands of Northern California. . . .
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August 02, 2008 06:51 AM EDT --
Good morning, friends and writers,
I hope you had a chance to keep up with last Saturday's thread, entitled, "The Dreaded Synopsis." Many of our colleagues posted synopses for . . .
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April 17, 2009 06:24 AM EDT --
Hi, fellow Gatherers! How's your week been going so far? Are you seeing more springlike temps where you live? I hope so! :o)
Today, here in the "wild hinterlands" of Sonoma County in . . .
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March 19, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
I decided to take a hike through Shiloh Ridge County Park today to see how the wildflowers were blooming there... Shiloh Ridge is located just east of the little town of Windsor in Sonoma County, Northern . . .
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June 03, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Welcome to Garden of the Gods! It's Friday, the first day of June, 2007. The air is cool and dry but the sun is warm on my back. It's early in the morning still and so . . .
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September 03, 2008 06:55 PM EDT --
It was fun to stroll through the small town of Dieburg, Germany and reminisce a little.
It's where I grew up and I enjoyed showing Richard around.
I've always appreciated . . .
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May 19, 2007 08:21 AM EDT --
Photo Essay Contest
After weeks of calamities and near disasters in the recent months, including . . .
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May 28, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
Check out MY heaven on Earth.
Where's yours?
~ Faith
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February 29, 2008 01:14 PM EST --
I must start out by apologizing for not being around Gather too much in the last few days... I was doing stuff for my Mom and then I was pulling my hair out trying to get my NEW CANON SX100-IS CAMERA . . .
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February 02, 2009 06:11 AM EST --
We have been fortunate here in Sonoma County in Northern California to have had beautiful days these last few weeks with daytime temperatures in the high 60s and low 70s and overnight lows . . .
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March 19, 2009 04:52 PM EDT --
It's a marvelously secluded spot... I call it "My Secret Meadow"...
To get there, one must climb up two very steep (about a 75-degree slant) rises behind "the ole singlewide" . . .
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September 03, 2008 12:39 AM EDT --
Ready for your armchair sightseeing trip?
I want you to know that a couple of the fun and strange pics were taken at the request of Richard, who thought the sign telling doggies to . . .
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March 19, 2008 09:33 PM EDT --
I invited you all to take a hike with me (as I did today) at the Sonoma County Park "Shiloh Ridge" just east of the little Northern California town of Windsor in Part I. That article . . .
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May 12, 2008 02:29 PM EDT --
Tree boughs yield
to a bitter wind...
Spring flowers frozen
in mid-bloom...
Grey clouds obscure
skies of azure blue...
Alone, I watch
my rosebuds sway
Outside . . .
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September 10, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
I returned to my Secret Hiking Spot today. I like watching places as the seasons pass, I think it is so cool. I have gone twice over the last three days, trying to groove with all the change . . .
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