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The cicadas are here! The cicadas are here! I’ve seen them on people's porches, and I’ve seen them in people's yards. I have not seen any at my house.
by ZenTrainer
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on Mon May 13, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Beef is not grown in confinement buildings as hogs and poultry are. Although “finished out” in feedlots, the mother cow is in a pasture its entire life and the calf for about half of its life is ...
by nailkeg
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:45 AM PST
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The answer is vibrations. So I read geeky news and was reading about DAS – a new use for fiber optics. Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or drive...
by umbra
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on Thu Feb 01, 2024 at 04:01 PM PST
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Cape Verde Islands
We continued our journey, cruising south from the Canary Islands ( The Daily Bucket: Volcanoes and Cloud Forests in the Canary Islands ) to the Cape Verde Islands.
by Mentha
90 comments
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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I spent about three hours wandering through a portion of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge .� My goal was to walk at a slower pace and carefully observe and absorb the web of life that makes this ...
by BrownsBay
136 comments
on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 06:30 AM PDT
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No matter the kibble, or the toona, or the cheese, cats find flying things irresistibly fascinating.
by strawbale
59 comments
on Sat Jun 17, 2023 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The tiny snail in the title photo is a non-native, highly invasive species that was introduced through agricultural products imported into the US.� Dade County, FLA. was the first area to have a ...
by CaptBLI
217 comments
on Fri May 19, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Last year we flagged the ongoing right-wing campaign of "Big Strong Fierce Manly Men Who Aren't Scared Of Anything" being whiny little babies when it comes to the suggestion that insect protein could be incorporated into diets for health, savings, and...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Apr 19, 2023 at 07:35 AM PDT
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I read a lot of batshit crazy RWNJ “news”. I got on somebodies email list and am now a “true patriot”. I get email from Mike Pompeo, Kellyanne Conway, Nancy Mace, Nikky Haley, Candace Owens, Hillsdale College, Lila Rose, Rand Paul, and, of course,...
by Zedyx
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on Sat Mar 18, 2023 at 09:45 PM PDT
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Now that I have added a bunch of native plants to my yard, I’m looking forward to seeing many more bugs: bees, butterflies, moths, dragonflies, beetles, spiders, who knows what else. This past summer I spotted some insects that baffled me as to what...
by birdsandbees23
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on Tue Jan 10, 2023 at 10:54 AM PST
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Some photos (mostly bugs) from a walk at Moccasin Lake Nature Park in Clearwater FL. Pinellas County has a very good public parks system.
For those who don't know, I live in a converted campervan ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 01:13 PM PDT
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Early today, I opened up iTunes on my computer. When I started playing the music files on my computer, all I heard was the background vocals and the instrumental music. I couldn’t hear any of the ...
by cohenzee
33 comments
on Tue Nov 30, 2021 at 07:00 PM PST
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August 2021
Hey all - this will be a very short bucket with only one topic - this really weird bug I found on the clothesline Saturday. Never seen it before and will likely never see it again. In ...
by PHScott
141 comments
on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 07:30 AM PDT
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���� A few days of rain with some sunny moments has given me the chance to put together a diary.� Let’s start with the title photo.� This Mallard caught my attention with the light presenting a ...
by CaptBLI
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on Sun Apr 18, 2021 at 07:30 AM PDT
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What happened yesterday at the Capitol was a lot of things. An insurrection. A riot. Perhaps even a betrayal. It was also a job. Done by professionals. If it wasn’t, then a bunch of professionals let a great opportunity slip by. And these people aren’t...
by Crashing Vor
402 comments
on Thu Jan 07, 2021 at 08:15 AM PST
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While taking my daily walk in the Sawgrass Lake Nature Preserve in St Pete (which is across the street from my house), I happened to see this: A swarm of wild honeybees At first I wasn’t sure ...
by Lenny Flank
17 comments
on Sun Sep 27, 2020 at 06:32 AM PDT
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Douglas County, MO
September 23, 2020
It has been a week since my last diary, and that has given me several opportunities to go out on my daily walks and take some photos along the way. To make ...
by lostintheozarks
108 comments
on Thu Sep 24, 2020 at 07:30 AM PDT
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June 10, 2020
Douglas County, Missouri
It was quite cool this morning and promised to get even cooler, so I set out on my morning walk with an eye to the sky in case it was planning to rain. I didn�
by lostintheozarks
51 comments
on Thu Jun 11, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Our presumptive nominee. You know who. Just Biden time. While orange-face tweets. Tweet away, combover! Tweet yourself away. Your sorry self. Into absolute Oblivion. Whatever baggage, if any, Joe might have—and I’m not going to touch that right now,...
by DrBobOpEd
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on Sun May 31, 2020 at 02:48 PM PDT
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This is a photo heavy diary showing what happens when you mow around clover patches and let the flowers mature. Across the country, communities are erupting in outrage over another incident of cops horribly killing a black man. I’m a month late on a...
by greenandblue
36 comments
on Sun May 31, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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