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    • A Disappointing Ending
    • Where in the World has Loren Been?
    • Another Colorado Outing
    • Centered
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    • We get to see Zoe's Soccer Game
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    • Unexpected is Good, Right?
    • Back to the Grind
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    • No Ignoring Hawaii's Flowers
    • Snorkeling on the Trilogy II
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    • And the Clouds Shall Part
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    • Blind to the Truth
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    • A Big Catch at Spring Lake
    • A Touch of Beauty
    • He-Who-Brings-The-Rain
    • The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
    • Still Stuck in the Past
    • Reflecting on 2017
    • Male Bufflehead
    • Birding Fort Worden
    • Birding Fort Flagler
    • Raptors at Theler Wetlands
    • Farewell to Capitol Reef National Park
    • More Pictures from Capitol Reef
    • The Colors and Textures of Capitol Reef
    • Capitol Reef's Freemont Petroglyphs
    • Goblin Valley State Park
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    • Canyonlands' Island in the Sky
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    • Hiking Near Broomfield
    • A Visit toSanta Fé
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    • Broomfield Soccer
    • A Stop-over at Bear River Bird Migratory Refuge
    • The Trip That Almost Wasn't
    • Today's Mandala
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    • Luisa A. Igloria's Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser
    • Still Alive — Still Busy Building
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    • Still Beautiful
    • Hummingbird In Evening Light
    • July Meditation
    • Loren Ain't No Stick-in-the-Mud
    • An Odd Duck
    • Grebes Feeding Chicks
    • Expect the Unexpected
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    • Eagles at Big Beef Creek
    • Wonder What's Going on Here
    • The Perfect Time to Walk Bloedel
    • Violet-Green Swallow on Railing
    • Great Blue Herons Jockeying for Best Fishing Hole
    • Great Blue Herons
    • Purple Martins
    • When You Don't See Any Eagles
    • Springing Forward to Summer
    • (Un)Common Yellowthroat
    • A Few More Shots
    • Last, But Not Least
    • Bottle Beach Flyby
    • Pigeon Guillemots
    • Westport Loons
    • California Quail
    • Lake Ralphine
    • Great Egrets
    • Night Herons in Santa Rosa
    • Juvenile Night Heron
    • Bodega Head
    • The Big One that Got Away
    • Birding Bodega Bay
    • Lael Sees the Redwoods for the First Time
    • Lael's Grandpa
    • Spring Break
    • Don't Overlook the Little Things in Life
    • Theler's River Otter
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    • Reading the Latest Immigration News
    • No Thinking Required
    • Music to Accompany Today's News
    • Leftovers
    • A Truly Trumpless Day
    • Snow Geese at Merced NWR
    • The Calm Between Storms
    • Snow Geese at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
    • A Great Blue Heron Kinda Morning
    • Fogwalking
    • Grebes, and More Grebes
    • Damn, Three-Quarters of a Century
    • I'm Finally Seeing Lots of Sea Ducks
    • Quiet Time With Friends
    • An Elegant Duck
    • John Lennon's "Happy XMAS"
    • No Such Thing as a Seagull
    • Hooded Mergansers
    • Mr. Reliable
    • Red-Tailed Hawk
    • The Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
    • Back to Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
    • Nature Still Prevails Here
    • More Pictures from King's Canyon
    • King’s Canyon National Park
    • Loren Attempts to Solve the World's Problems
    • Cattle Egret, Too
    • More Sandhill Cranes
    • Merced National Wildlife Refuge
    • Beauty In Unexpected Places
    • Amazing
    • Fortresses Against Time
    • Framing Shots
    • Some Grand Canyon Trees
    • Zion's Three Patriarchs
    • Zion from Springdale
    • Finally, Zion
    • On the Way to Zion
    • A Final Look at Mesa Verde
    • Mesa Verde's Stark Beauty
    • Mesa Verde Petroglyphs
    • Touring Mesa Verde
    • On the Road to Mesa Verde
    • The Grand Tetons
    • Beauty Takes Many Forms
    • Yellowstone's White Wolf
    • Grizzly
    • Yelllowstone's Bison
    • Some Obligatory Photos
    • More than Just Geysers and Wildlife
    • Where in the World
    • Port Orchard Marina
    • And One More Thing
    • The Mountain Goat
    • Hiking Sawtooth Mountain
    • Impressions of Indian Heaven
    • Fall Hiking in Indian Heaven
    • Theler in the Fog
    • I Break for Dahlias
    • Sparrows and More Sparrows
    • Earlier This Morning
    • A Spectacular Dive
    • Time for Some Poetry
    • Far Better than a Workout at the Gym
    • Two "Lifetime" Birds
    • A Flower By Any Other Name
    • Loren's Shots from the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
    • Mira Likes the SX60HS, too.
    • Why I Bought Yet Another Camera
    • Hiking Wahkeena Falls (updated with photos, duh)
    • Logan's Shots from Mt. St. Helens
    • Great Blue Heron Fishing
    • Great Blue Heron
    • Everyday Beauty
    • A Short Stop at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
    • Avocet Chicks
    • American Coot Chicks
    • Logan Visits Gramps
    • Great Blue Herons
    • Eagles in Action
    • Cedar Waxwing with Berry
    • Visiting the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island
    • Simply Beautiful
    • American Avocets at Bear River
    • Leslie's Shots from Bear River
    • A Quick Stop at Bear River
    • Soccer in Colorado
    • Beyond Words
    • First Goslings of the Season
    • Old Friends Passing Through
    • The Loons Call to Me
    • Portland's Japanese Garden
    • Mono No Aware
    • Satisfactual
    • Be Mused
    • All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
    • Four Harlequins
    • More Hooded Merganser Shots
    • Love is In the Air
    • At the Crack of Dawn
    • Another Break in the Clouds
    • It is looking like a bad week!
    • Birding Port Orchard
    • Icy Blue
    • Did I Miss November?
    • Signs of The Times
    • Are these Greater or Lesser?
    • Sea Birds Are Back at Port Orchard
    • A Perfect Fall Walk
    • An Owens Beach Walk
    • Timing is all
    • Where's My Telephoto Lens
    • The Elusive Blue Jay
    • A Stark Beauty
    • Flickers Everywhere
    • Pictures of the Kids
    • Loren's Coloring Book
    • Swan Island Dahlias
    • A Few More Shots from Bodega Bay
    • Santa Rosa's National Heirloom Exposition
    • The “Urban Folk Art” of Patrick Amiot
    • Back on Track
    • Theler's Shorebirds
    • Theler, Almost Home
    • Haunted
    • Pt. Defiance Dahlias
    • Be Mused
    • W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory at Wright Park
    • Where Did Summer Go, Already?
    • Recycled, Too
    • Recycled
    • Missed Opportunities
    • Too Much of a Good Thing
    • Tule Terns
    • Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge
    • Back to Malheur
    • Crossing Nevada
    • Goodbye to Bear River
    • Utah's Antelope Island
    • Columbine
    • Letters from the Past
    • Nothing Lasts for Long
    • Friendly Tree Swallow
    • Grebes and Loons
    • Camouflaged
    • Pelicans Are Back
    • A Few Song Birds
    • First Shots with my 100-400mm Lens
    • Carpe Diem
    • Virtual Birdwatching
    • It's Canada Goose Time of Year
    • Yeah, What the Seattle Times Said
    • And Oystercatchers, Too
    • Harlequin Watching
    • Anticipation
    • For the Sheer Beauty of It
    • Could this really be PTSD?
    • When Sunshine Turns to Fog
    • A Walk on the Dark Side
    • Add a Little Sunshine
    • And Not Just Hooded Mergansers
    • Hooded Mergansers
    • Almost (A)live
    • Birding Port Orchard Marina
    • Getting Back On Track
    • A Sunny Morning in the Pacific Northwest
    • Take the Long Way Home
    • Colorado's The Wild Animals Sanctuary
    • Great Blue Heron
    • Hunkered Down for Winter
    • Enjoy Your Day Off
    • More Views of The Columbia Gorge
    • Ancestral Home
    • Always Take the Long Road Home
    • I Finally got to Hike with Terry and Bill
    • I Still Haven't Seen Crater Lake
    • Expect the Unexpected
    • Grebes, grebes, and more grebes
    • Birding Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge
    • Another Quick Look at Bodie
    • Bodie California
    • Mono Lake Probably Won't Become one of my Go-To Places
    • The East Entrance of Yosemite
    • The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
    • The Devil's Postpile
    • A First Look at Mono Lake
    • Folks, This is Art
    • The Great Basin's Lehman Caves
    • Great Basin National Park
    • No News is Good News
    • This Economy is Giving Me the Blues
    • Who Needs Social Security?
    • Time to Put an End to Police Militarization
    • Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
    • Wilson's Phalaropes Near Malheur NWF
    • Great Blue Heron Territorial Displays
    • These are Definitely "Keepers"
    • A Strange Flower
    • Our Front Garden
    • Must Be Summer
    • Dandelion
    • Beauty is Where You Find It
    • Flying with the Swallows
    • Dowitchers
    • Pt. Defiance Rose and Rhododendron Gardens
    • Where Sky and Earth Meet
    • Ancient
    • A Much-Needed Rest
    • Hope These Were Worth the Effort
    • My Love/Hate Relationship with Digital Photography
    • Meanwhile, Back Home in the Puget Sound Area
    • The Butterfly Gardens with Lael
    • Loons Change Plumage, Too
    • Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac
    • Mary Hill Museum
    • Raptors at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
    • Gut Wrenching
    • Who Needs Butterflies?
    • Be Careful What You Wish For !
    • Been Pretty Hectic Around Here
    • Barrow's Goldeneye
    • At the National Bison Range
    • Back Home in Washington
    • Get It Right the Next Time
    • I Get Lost in My Mind
    • Fall Colors
    • Portland's Japanese Garden
    • Snowy Egrets
    • Mute Swans at Lake Ralphine
    • Vacation’s Over!
    • Portrait of Artist as Young Man
    • A "Sunny" Pacific Northwest Day
    • Loren Discovers Sin
    • Attain Complete Emptiness
    • If I Had a Drone
    • I'll be back to normal shortly
    • With Lael at the Zoo
    • Theler Wetlands Revisted
    • What I Do When I have Writer's Block
    • Ain’t Nothing You Can Do
    • Just Playing Around
    • Ohanapecosh
    • A Week of Camping On Mount Rainier
    • Julian Whitaker's The Mini-Fast Diet
    • It Doesn't Get Any Easier
    • Burrowing Owls
    • Roses, And Dahlias, Too
    • American Avocet
    • Pete French Round Barn
    • Competition is Everywhere
    • Still At Theler
    • Remembering
    • Spring Light
    • Spring Birding at Theler
    • Just Hanging in There
    • On the Way Home
    • Birding Port Orchard
    • Lax's "Circus of the Sun"
    • The Week That Wasn't
    • California Trippin'
    • Gavin's First Football Game
    • More Birding
    • Do not go gentle
    • It Takes a Village
    • A Touch of Frost
    • Planned Obsolescence
    • Pride Goeth Before
    • The Perfect Solution ?#!
    • Dirty Face Lodge
    • “Cannery, Hood River” by Janice Gould
    • Deer Drink The Moon: Poems of Oregon
    • Too Many Choices
    • A Break in the Clouds
    • This Could be My Best Shot of 2012
    • Some of My Best Shots of the Year
    • I've Run Out of Pictures and Ideas
    • Say What?!
    • While Still Trying to Hang Onto My Health
    • Letting Go of the Past
    • Disgusting
    • Bah-humbug
    • You Can't be Lucky Forever
    • I Love the Texture of These Rocks
    • To Endure
    • Canyonlands National Park, North Entrance
    • Canyonlands National Park, Southern Entrance
    • Canyonlands National Park, South Entrance
    • Using HDR in Scenics
    • Still on the way to Canyonlands National Park
    • On the Way to Canyonlands National Park
    • Hiking Boulder
    • Yellowstone Wildlife
    • Scenic Views In and Around Yellowstone
    • Yellowstone Patterns and Textures
    • Back to Yellowstone
    • Volunteer Park Conservatory
    • Mea Culpa
    • Indian Summer
    • Joyce's "Eveline
    • Redwoods Revisited
    • Santa Rosa's Spring Lake
    • Hard to Believe this is the same place I visited this Spring
    • The Point Defiance Dahlia Garden
    • A Visitor on My Day Off
    • A Break on the Long Ride Home
    • Grand Tetons have wildlife, too
    • The Grand Tetons
    • Yes, There were Some Birds at Yellowstone, too
    • Yellowstone Scenics
    • Loren's Wild Life
    • Beartooth Pass
    • A Colorado Hike
    • It was an up and down trip
    • Nighthawks
    • Dungeness Scenery
    • Pt Defiance Rose Garden
    • Home Again, Home Again
    • White Pelicans at Malheur
    • Nuts!!
    • Seldom Seen Common Loons
    • Bedazzled
    • Better Late Than Never
    • Squirrel!
    • Last Week's Snow Storm
    • Collage
    • Practice
    • Snow Geese
    • Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge
    • Southern California Transition
    • Cactus Wren
    • Roadside Memorial or Road Kill?
    • Gee It's Good to Be Back Home
    • Folk Art 101
    • A False Sense of Security
    • When is a Seagull Not?
    • Cabello Lake
    • Playing with HDR Efex Pro
    • Colorado Wildlife
    • Garden of the Gods
    • Beginning Scenics
    • Soccer Day in Colorado
    • Boulder Foothills
    • Fall Sports
    • Busted!
    • Hoh's "Hall of Mosses"
    • Visiting the Hoh Rainforest On a Sun Day
    • Another Day in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
    • The Steens Mountain Loop Road
    • Aspens in the Steen Mountains
    • Skye
    • It's Soccer Time!
    • Moral ethics are the basis of world peace — The Dalai Lama
    • Another haiku
    • A Visit to Magnuson Park
    • New Priorities
    • Like a Rolling Stone
    • The Wild Side
    • Margaret's Garden
    • Jim Mullan's "Vintage Bird Collection"
    • A Leap of Faith
    • Houser's Art at the Denver Botanic Garden
    • Zoe's Photographs
    • I'm Starting Lord Jim
    • Escapism
    • Apocalypse Now
    • At the Tropical Butterfly Garden
    • Butterfly Day
    • Getting-To-Know-You Quiz
    • Christmas Mantra
    • Bing Crosby's "The Happy Prince"
    • The Myth of Christmas
    • Cosmic Zoom
    • A Sunny Day in Port Townsend
    • Wild Horses?
    • Spinning Wheels
    • WTF
    • "Birding" with Kids
    • Butterfly
    • Turquoise Lake, Colorado
    • As Beautiful As Ever
    • At the "Circus"
    • Lael Photographs
    • Some Things Never Change
    • Where Past Meets Present
    • Fly Away
    • Home Again, Home Again
    • Tacoma Museum of Glass
    • Not Every Day is a Good Day
    • What Happened to Winter?
    • Incremental Improvements
    • PBS's This Emotional Life Premiers Tonight
    • How I Spent My Virtual Holiday
    • Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
    • Sick Leave
    • Mea Culpa
    • Age Discrimination
    • Gilfillan's Rivers & Birds
    • Loose Ends
    • Mt. Rainier
    • Serendipity
    • Home Again
    • Washtucna
    • Mariners Defeat Yankees
    • Hurricane Ridge
    • Song of the Wild
    • Shaman
    • Make My Day
    • To Leslie (and Jeff)
    • Deja Vu, Day Two
    • I've Been Remiss
    • Brave New World
    • Loren Knows Kitsch
    • He-Who-Talks-To-Small-Birds, Too
    • How I Spent my 4th, and 3rd
    • Perfect
    • A Flower by Any Other Name
    • Playing For Change Album
    • Them Liberals 'aint Got No Sense of Humor
    • Knocking the Rust Off
    • San Juan Island Trip
    • Belfair-Thuya Trip
    • Huskies Win Softball Championship!
    • Fogged Out
    • Mima Mounds
    • Cultivation
    • Retreating to My Shell
    • Spring Storm on the Coast
    • More than Rhodies
    • Weyerhauser Rhododendron Garden
    • Well, Maybe a Little
    • I am NOT Obssessed with Birds
    • A Last Walk in the Neighborhood
    • Snowy Egret
    • Conejo Valley Botanic Center
    • Santa Barbara Zoo
    • Wildwood Park
    • Carpinteria California
    • Santa Monica Recreation Area
    • California's Sespe Wilderness
    • Hagen's Buddhism:Plain and Simple
    • Spring is Near
    • Some Shots from Saturday
    • Spring Cleaning
    • Oooops, There Goes the Site
    • Spring, With a Promise of Weeds
    • Northern Shovelers
    • Pileated Woodpecker
    • Happy Valentine's Day
    • Great Blue Heron
    • Marsh Hawk
    • Saturday's Shots
    • Trumpeter Swans
    • Male Common Merganser
    • Synchronized
    • Birds in the Yard
    • Birding On A Cloudy Day
    • Semi-Precious
    • Approaching the Light
    • Dragonfly
    • Christmas on Hold Here In Pacific Northwest
    • Not Quite What I Had in Mind for Christmas
    • Be Careful What You Wish For
    • Bringing Christmas Joy
    • Heron In Winter Coat
    • It's Cold Inside
    • Mea Culpa
    • Eurasian Widgeon
    • Cormorant
    • Malevolence
    • Writer's Block
    • Thankful
    • Beaker
    • What Fools We Be
    • Posting Difficulties
    • Hooded Merganser Sequence
    • I Visit Port Orchards
    • End of Soccer Season
    • I Got those Red-White-Blues
    • Tagged
    • Butterflies, and More Butterflies
    • Some Southeast Asian Butterflies
    • Phew
    • Charm Against a Rainy Day
    • Mine, Mine
    • Sea Lions Fishing
    • Birding at Tokeland
    • These Old Bones
    • No Mas
    • Fall's Pallette
    • A Last Look Back at the Zoo
    • Three Shots I Wish I’d Taken
    • Exotic Birds at Woodland Park Zoo
    • At the Seattle Zoo
    • When Good Shots Turn Bad
    • Black-Capped Chickadee on a Rainy Day
    • Autumn
    • Old Wounds
    • Strangely Beautiful
    • Seven Years Old
    • Serenedipity
    • No Butterflies Today
    • Busy as
    • Consider this a Political Entry
    • A Real Labor Day Weekend
    • R.S. Thomas' "Arrival"
    • Paying Attention
    • Oregon Coast
    • Avenue of the Giants
    • Oregon Coast
    • Crow on Branch
    • Green On Green 4700
    • Butterfly Bush
    • In the Garden
    • Take the Long Way Back
    • A Flock of Seagulls
    • More of the Same
    • Summer Rain
    • Getting Comfortable
    • Chehalis Wildlife Area
    • Mima Mounds in July
    • More Shots from Steilacoom
    • Dragonflies and more
    • Tiger Swallowtail
    • A Couple More Shots
    • Waiting
    • They're Back!
    • I Brake for Wildlife Refuges
    • Brooks Memorial State Park
    • Goldendale
    • From Wahkeena Falls
    • Shelley Powers' Painting the Web
    • Sunday Morning Reverie
    • Silver Lining
    • Green567
    • Ouzel Falls, Rocky Mountain National Park
    • She Ain’t Heavy
    • Denver Zoo, Again
    • Memorial Day
    • Pt. Defiance Rhododendron Garden
    • Cinnamon Teal
    • Great Blue Heron
    • Blossom
    • Belfair Today
    • Spring Cleaning
    • A Short Winter Break
    • No Matter How Cynical I Get
    • Shifting Priorities
    • Turn, Turn, Turn
    • Knock, Knock, Knocking On Heaven's Door
    • The Perfect Toothbrush
    • Mini "vacation"
    • Blogger Survey for Doctoral Student
    • Common Merganser Males
    • An Altered Ego
    • Reflections on a Sunny Day
    • A Delightful Sunday
    • Awwwww
    • A Little Color on a Gray Day
    • This Moment
    • Martin Palmer's The Jesus Sutras
    • A Real Mac Pro
    • Forecast: Gloomy and Wet
    • Nature Calls
    • Too Much Stuff
    • Nice Way to End the Year
    • Casino Nation Video
    • Merry Christmas
    • Owens Beach
    • Back Online
    • A Walk at Titlow Park
    • A Little Hair Pulling
    • Old Acquaintances
    • What Endures
    • Manic Depressive?
    • Noted
    • You Can't Win for Losing
    • It's an Up and Down World
    • Relax
    • Still Hanging in There
    • Once in a Blue Moon
    • The Price of Living on the Edge
    • We Are Family
    • Going Nowhere Fast
    • A Sunny Day Walk
    • Fall Leaves on a Stormy Day
    • More Butterflies
    • Scrabulous
    • The Eye Begins to See
    • Wordpress Update
    • When Pigs Fly
    • Butterfly Eden
    • Another Year Older
    • Turn, Turn, Turn
    • Mike's Dahlia
    • Who Says You Can Never Go Home Again?
    • Denver Zoo
    • Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Here in Colorado
    • Nothing's Really "Free" Is It?
    • Hummingbird
    • Back to Olympic National Park
    • Be the Best You Can Be
    • Beauty is Where You Find It
    • Who are They Kidding?
    • Dahliaing Around
    • Inspirational
    • Upgrading Wordpress to 2.2.1
    • A Bright Spot on A Rainy Day
    • He Who Talks With Small Birds
    • Flights of Fancy
    • Mellowing Gracefully
    • More Flowers
    • The Only Flag I Fly
    • Liars, Damned Liars
    • Alien Invader
    • Suspicious Activity
    • Rose-Colored Glasses
    • Audubon Society Warns Common Birds Disappearing
    • My Ducks Are All in a Row
    • Some Kind Of Ecstasy Got A Hold On Me
    • Dreaming about Eternity
    • Flitting Around
    • Solar Plexus
    • Satisfied
    • The Power of Transformation
    • The Call of the Wild
    • “Proboscis”
    • Pacific Science Center Tropical Butterfly Garden
    • We are Family
    • Memorial Day
    • Sunday Doodlings
    • Closer to Home
    • The Art of Becoming
    • Hollo's "A Town Dedicated to the Pursuit of Fitness & Inner Peace"
    • Reflections On a Cloudy Day
    • It's the Little Things in Life
    • Dragonfly
    • Not Just Pretty Flowers
    • At the Shore
    • Skagit Tulip Fields
    • Back to Weyerhaeyser Rhododendron and Bonsai Garden
    • A Bowl of Sunlight
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