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For those of you who aren’t reading my novel, here are some photos of a grasshopper… to keep you busy…

He was just sitting on one of my geraniums… and he didn’t seem to mind letting me put the camera right in his face… So I did…

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Uh… I might not be very good at blacksmithing, it turns out… part 2… and the final chapter…

At this point, I started drawing out the stems of the leaves. This was tricky, because usually, we have a long piece of metal to work with. These were just a couple inches long after we cut them off. So I had … Continue reading

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Uh… I might not be very good at blacksmithing, it turns out…

Yeah, there I am, driving home from my blacksmithing class just a few hours ago, face covered with soot, coal dust, chunks of burnt and unburnt coal, and red from being so hot. I took my first class after my three ‘blacksmithing … Continue reading

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My dog…

So, I was at the pet store getting a big bag of food for Shiloh the dog… and I saw that… uh… well, it’s a dog toy, and it is very long, and it looks like a cross between a … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… the final chapter…

Well, this is it for this adventure at the San Diego zoo with my little buddy, Olivia… Hey, I told you… she loves turtles… That is an actual, life-sized, bronze, Galapagos tortoise, just so you know… Oh come on… how cute … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… part 9… for the birds…

Oh yeah… hummingbird in flight…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 8… for the birds…

Birds are not always easy to photograph… even in a zoo setting… and especially the little birds… because those guys move around almost as much as the crack squirrels that live inside my head… Inside the San Diego zoo, there … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… part 7… for the birds…

Strangely, I saved a bunch of pictures of birds for the last parts of this series… I like to build to a crescendo… You would think that it would be hard to top the baby gorilla, or the mom and … Continue reading

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ZOOmin’ around… part 6…

And we saw this little guy again…

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ZOOmin’ around… part 5…

So, there I was, at the San Diego zoo, with my zoom lens, just babysitting my little buddy, Olivia… and we saw this mother hippo playing with her baby… I will not break these photos up with words… because it … Continue reading

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