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For the birds… part 2… with no words about the birds, because I put the words with the birds in the first post…

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For the birds… part 1…

My mom is a bird watcher. While I was visiting her for her 95th birthday, we spent some quality time together watching the birds in her garden. That is a Hummingbird. It turned into a game, to see how many … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 7… how I ended up spending the night there, where I stayed, and how I used my extra time taking even more photos for you!!!

When I was up in the Bay Area visiting my mom for her 95th birthday, I wasn’t actually planning on a trip to Yosemite. And when I did decide to go, it was just a spontaneous idea for a day … Continue reading

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Raccoons and squirrels and wasps, oh my!!!

Well, I am back in San Diego from visiting my mom in the Bay Area for her 95th birthday. But I still have a lot of photos from my trip to share. I caught a raccoon stealing the cat food … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 6… just random pictures, taken over two days, with no words to interrupt your viewing pleasure…

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The most astounding sunset I ever saw… and I have seen a lot of sunsets, I mean, I do posts about them all the time… remember when I tried to post a sunset photo every night for an entire year?

Yes, all these fires raging in California did allow me to visit Yosemite and be almost the only person there. But they have played havoc with the sunsets on my trip to the Bay Area to visit my mom for … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 5… the wildlife… part 3… in which I finally tell you all about that bear, and share the photos of deer so close that you can see their eyelashes…

There is the bear I saw on my adventure in Yosemite. Not only did I see him once, I saw him twice. On two separate days. Even the park rangers were amazed by that. Lots of people go to Yosemite … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 4… the wildlife… part 2… where I was attacked and eaten by a bear…

Yes, these two blurry images capture the moment before my demise… It was quite painful, being eaten by a bear, but the scenery was beautiful, and I did get some good shots of the bear. No, silly, I didn’t get … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 3… the wildlife… part 1…

Another good thing about the huge wildfires that closed Yosemite until just before I took my little road trip there, is that, because there were almost no people around, I had the best wildlife experiences of my life there on … Continue reading

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I totally cheated on these flower photos: here is how you dew it…

Lovely, a dew-kissed flower in my mom’s garden. The dew makes the pictures come alive. Yeah, that isn’t dew. You, too, can do the dew. It is just water in a small spray bottle. That little bottle is going in … Continue reading

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