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Birds and words… part 6…

Posted on December 1, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Now, in our continuing story of our holiday camping adventure, we come to the majestic love dance of the western grebe. Grebes are adorable little water birds with bright red eyes. When they aren’t looking for food, they are looking … Continue reading →

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Birds and words… part 4…

Posted on November 30, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Here is another of my weird bird experiences on our camping adventure over the Thanksgiving holiday. There was this little scrub jay sitting on a fence. I just kept walking slowly closer and closer to it. He let me get … Continue reading →

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Birds and words… part 3…

Posted on November 29, 2015 by pouringmyartout

So… yeah… back to my weird bird adventures… We went camping over the holiday week, to be near my wife’s aunt up in Solvang. You should Google Solvang. It is an adorable little Scandinavian town. They passed a law that … Continue reading →

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We went camping… part 6… wait… is that a tank driving down the road???

Posted on October 20, 2015 by pouringmyartout

When we went to that festival at the tractor and farm equipment museum, I wasn’t really expecting to see a tank driving in. No, it didn’t drive all the way there from Camp Pendleton. It was brought there on a … Continue reading →

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We went camping… part 2… (or); okay, I feel bad about the insect porn…

Posted on October 18, 2015 by pouringmyartout

So here are some cute pictures of birds… These two geese never strayed far from each other. It was really sort of adorable. I don’t know what’s going on there. There was a lot going on at the lake, that’s … Continue reading →

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Flowers in my mom’s garden…

Posted on August 27, 2015 by pouringmyartout
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We did it!!! We reached the end! These are the very last pictures of our trip to Europe… except for a few taken on the airplane on the way back… and one really disturbing one of me naked in a shower which there is no way I am going to let go to waste… so… uh… yeah…

Posted on August 25, 2015 by pouringmyartout

This is it. These pictures of our day trip to Neuschwanstein castle are the last pictures I have to share with you… almost… Oooh… look at that crazy bridge over that gorge way over there. And look at that… the … Continue reading →

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A German lake, some mountains that may actually be in Switzerland, and some feet… oh my…

Posted on August 24, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Still just zooming through these last pictures of our day trip to Neuschwanstein… Mollie took a nice picture of her feet. And, of course, no blog post is actually complete without at least one picture of yours truly! I just … Continue reading →

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Okay, I am back from visiting my mom in the Bay Area and… awwwwwwwwwwww… baby swans!!!

Posted on August 23, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Yes, we took a little trip North to the Bay Area… (mostly for Willie’s third birthday, but don’t tell my mom that)… And I have tons of pictures to share… of the party, and cute babies, and some awesome art … Continue reading →

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And now, a fairy-tale castle and some beautiful scenery… you know… to get the taste of Nazi concentration camps out of our skulls…

Posted on August 12, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Our very last day-trip in Germany, on our very last full day in Europe, was to visit Neuschwanstein castle… We drove out from Munich for a few hours and Mollie finally got to see the Alps… which you have to at … Continue reading →

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