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    • Black-Crowned Night-Herons
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    • Here a Red-Tailed Hawk, There a Red-Tailed Hawk
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    • Signs of Winter
    • Hooded Merganser
    • Back to Theler Wetlands
    • Backyard Visitors
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    • Birding Ocean Shores, Washington
    • Acorn Woodpeckers in an Unexpected Place
    • Late Summer at San Pablo NWR
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    • Birding Carolyn Holmberg Preserve
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    • Is This the Year of the Guillemot?
    • And Songbirds, Too
    • Pigeon Guillemots Everywhere
    • A Visit to Seabeck
    • Birding Kah Tai Lagoon Nature Park
    • Black Oystercatcher
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    • Between Showers
    • Western Grebes, and More Western Grebes
    • A Siege of Night Herons
    • Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
    • Kestrels and More
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    • More Birding at Spring Lake
    • A Plethora of Common Mergansers
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    • Leslie's Photographs
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    • Red-Shafted Flickers Make My Day
    • Getting My Priorities Straight
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    • Hooded Merganser
    • Wasn't That a ... ??
    • Tantalizing
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    • Hummingbird Redux
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    • Prehistoric? Updated
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    • Brown Pelicans in Breeding Colors
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    • Too Much of a Good Thing
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    • A Few Favorites
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    • Dunlin
    • Red-Necked Phalaropes
    • And on to Bottle Beach
    • Wilson's Phalarope
    • You Could Call it Failure
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    • Back to Umatilla
    • Black and White's Enough for Me
    • Waughop Lake
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    • Cold Springs National Wildlife Refuge
    • Day One
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    • Displaced
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    • Minor Setbacks
    • Tokeland
    • Paying Your Dues
    • The Unexpected
    • Black-Bellied Plovers
    • Toppenish Wildlife Refuge
    • Day One
    • Ocean Shores, Too
    • A Sunny Day at Ocean Shores
    • They're Back
    • Can a Mallard be White?
    • White-Crowned Sparrow
    • My First Sighting of Red Knots
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    • Bottle Beach
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    • Right on Time
    • Writer's Block
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    • A Sonoma County Park
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    • Washington Coast
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    • Black and White
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    • Finally, a Little Sunshine
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    • Some Quiet Reflection
    • Feud'n Fuss'n and Fight'n
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    • Audubon Society Warns Common Birds Disappearing
    • A Cedar Waxwing
    • Waughop Lake
    • Fort Lagler
    • Sunday at Belfair
    • The Fun is in the Chase
    • Simon Barnes’ How to Be a (BAD) Birdwatcher.
    • Finally, Some New Pictures
    • Drying Out
    • Cormorant
    • Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds
    • Stalling
    • Beach Property
    • Life is Sweet, Unless You Read the News
    • Ahhhhh
    • Avoiding Work
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    • Snow Geese
    • Another Nice Day
    • Serendipity
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    • A Sunny Weekend
    • Spring Harbinger?
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    • Finding What You’re Looking For
    • A Small Price to Pay
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    • Twenty Four Days of Straight Rain
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    • Gull Darn, I Didn't Know That
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    • My Lady of the Lake
    • The King and I
    • Cormorant
    • Making Every Hour Count
    • Catch of the Day
    • Birding Port Townsend
    • Loren’s Wild Bird Chase
    • Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
    • Back to Belfair
    • Duck soup
    • Tai Chi Master
    • Duck !
    • Expect the Unexpected
    • Beauty is Where You Find It
    • William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge
    • What I Did on My Vacation
    • Lens Envy
    • Theler Wetlands Trails and Nature Preserve
    • Please, Don’t Think Less of Me
    • Selling Ourselves Short
    • A Wild Goose Chase
    • The Other Side of the Fence
    • Great Egret, Too
    • A Great Egret
    • Pileated Woodpecker
    • Now Here's a Real Hummer
    • The Big Picture
    • Ah, My Little Chickadee
    • A Small Brown Creeper
    • Nisqually's Blue Frog
    • Guess Who Dropped In For Lunch?
    • Learning To See
    • An American Bittern
    • No Soaring Today
    • Reflection
    • Soaring
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    • Our Last Day in Santa Rosa
    • Snowy Egrets Take Center Stage
    • Horned Grebes
    • The Little Things in Life
    • Springing Ahead
    • Varied Thrush Finally Visits
    • Probably As Close to Heaven as I'll Ever Get
    • Day Two at the Coast
    • A Longer Trip to the Coast
    • Another Day at the Coast
    • Not gonna be that guy
    • Where's the Reset Button?
    • I'm a Birder — Today, at Least
    • A Day Out at Theler and Port Orchard
    • A Quick Update
    • Pushing My Limits
    • It's a Start, At Least
    • A Morning at Fort Flagler
    • Selected Haiku: Masaoka Shiki
    • A Christmas Resolution
    • A Break in the Clouds
    • Old Age
    • Down the Coast to Santa Rosa
    • Summer's End
    • In Retrospect, She May Have Been Right
    • Backyard Visitors
    • A Disappointing Ending
    • Where in the World has Loren Been?
    • Another Colorado Outing
    • Centered
    • Birding and Fishing
    • Colorado Wild Flowers
    • We get to see Zoe's Soccer Game
    • Cattle Egret at the Santa Rosa Rookery
    • Friends of Malheur
    • Malheur Bobolink
    • Bloedel Reserve's Natural Wild Flowers
    • Unexpected is Good, Right?
    • Back to the Grind
    • Inseparable
    • Consolation Prize
    • The Walk Down to Honolua Bay
    • A Hawaiian Botanical Garden
    • No Ignoring Hawaii's Flowers
    • Snorkeling on the Trilogy II
    • More Pictures of Maui
    • First Impressions of Maui
    • One Last Glimpse Until Fall
    • And the Clouds Shall Part
    • Where the Rain Don't Fall
    • Looking Back at You
    • Red-Breasted Merganser
    • Song Sparrow
    • Big Bird
    • Western Bluebirds at Theler
    • Hard Not to Enjoy a Sunny Day at the Coast
    • Blind to the Truth
    • Sorry Cadet Bone Spurs,
    • Just North of Bodega Bay
    • 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
    • Goblin Valley State Park
    • Canyonlands' Island in the Sky
    • A Last Glance at Arches NP
    • Lost and Found
    • Arches National Park
    • Hiking Near Broomfield
    • A Visit toSanta Fé
    • The High Road from Taos to Santa Fe
    • Taos Pueblo
    • The Rio Grande and the Millicent Rogers Museum
    • Broomfield Soccer
    • A Stop-over at Bear River Bird Migratory Refuge
    • The Trip That Almost Wasn't
    • Today's Mandala
    • Osprey Fishing
    • Luisa A. Igloria's Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser
    • Still Alive — Still Busy Building
    • LBJ (Little Brown Job)
    • Osprey Catching Fish
    • 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
    • Just Got Back
    • 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
    • Feeling Under the Weather
    • 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
    • Golden Compass Movie
    • 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
    • A Single Heart
    • Too Cold for My Taste
    • Better than Gold
    • All Strung Out
    • Like Some Faded Memory
    • Easter Hunt Parade
    • Early Morning Promise
    • Dodging the Sunshine
    • Red Light
    • Weighty Matters
    • No Snow Here
    • Thinking Blogs Meme
    • Gioia on Robinson Jeffers
    • Can Poetry Matter?
    • Reasons to Travel
    • California Dreamin'
    • Miriam McFall Starlin's Wait a Minute
    • Be Back Soon
    • On the Road
    • Transformations
    • Minor Addictions
    • Collage
    • Purple Haze
    • Back to Dungeness
    • Tacoma's Botanical Conservatory
    • I Got Jizz
    • Waiting for UPS
    • Macho Man
    • Tagged
    • Back to the Slopes
    • Thomas McGuane’s An Outside Chance
    • Floyce Alexander's Bottom Falling Out of the Dream
    • Thanks, alan
    • Balancing Act
    • Resting
    • Leavenworth
    • Almost Birding
    • Weather Report
    • That Old Christmas Feeling
    • One man’s hero
    • More from No Feather, No Ink
    • No Feather, No Ink
    • Not the Greatest
    • Printing Pictures
    • True Lies
    • You Can’t Take It With You
    • Bill Yake’s This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain
    • Nisqually Watershed
    • The Outsider
    • A Fall Day in the Neighborhood
    • Save Washington’s Small Farms
    • No-Brainer
    • Old Habits
    • When Good Technology Goes Bad
    • They Called Me Mythter Webster
    • Don’t Play with Your Food
    • Fifth Anniversary
    • At the Denver Zoo
    • Back Home
    • I’m Outa Here
    • Does Anyone Watch ABC Anymore?
    • An Unexpected Greeting
    • Frazzled
    • Diane's Ten Commandments
    • Turn, Turn, Turn
    • Ask Not For Whom These Bells Toll
    • Leaves
    • Sleeping with the Enemy
    • Weyerhaeuser Bonsai and Rhododendron Garden
    • Sometimes I Just Like to Talk
    • Loren's Blues
    • Sometimes Even Beauty
    • For Dear Friends
    • Out On a Limb
    • Not Ready For Prime Time
    • I (Don’t Really) Need That
    • All's Well that Ends Well
    • Anniversary
    • When Discriminating Becomes Discriminatory
    • Too Much Work, Too Little Beauty
    • Sunrise at Mt.Rainier
    • And my thoughts seem to scatter
    • Too Hot To Handle
    • Visitors
    • Birding without a Lens
    • Henley’s “A Month of Sundays?
    • Life is Sweet, Unless You Read the News
    • Have a Great 4th of July
    • Get it Right Next Time
    • More on Net Neutrality
    • Love The One You’re With
    • Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge
    • Montage
    • Two for the Price of One
    • The Rainy Northwest
    • Looking Back
    • Purple
    • True Passion
    • Urge Congress to Vote for Better Fuel Economy
    • When You Have Nothing To Say
    • Memorial Day
    • One More Reason to Get Steamed
    • Waxing Poetic
    • Ascension
    • A Granola’s Views of Population Growth
    • A Get Well Card to Myself
    • Comments are NO LONGER Broken
    • Pimping Dreams of Riches for Everybody
    • Mother’s Day Wishes
    • Bad Karma
    • Save the Internet as We Know It
    • Republicans Running Scared
    • Running on Empty
    • Reading the Signs
    • A Few Flowers
    • Easter Sunday
    • A Movie Actually Worth Watching
    • At the Farm
    • Bush’s Brave New Wilderness
    • Kids and Grandkids
    • Political Blogs
    • A Sunny Weekend
    • Stamen
    • Finding What You’re Looking For
    • American Bittern
    • A Promise of Spring
    • What I Did on My Vacation
    • Off to Colorado
    • A Small Price to Pay
    • One Can But Wish
    • Here You Go, Joseph
    • A Little Good News Never Hurts
    • Is it really "The End of the Internet?"
    • I Want It! I Need it!
    • Respite
    • When Good Bots Go Bad
    • The Magic of Technology
    • Freed from Innocence
    • Sebald's Vertigo
    • More Books from the Past
    • Roo Borson's "Intermittent Rain"
    • Time for A Clean Start
    • When I’m 64
    • Lorna Crozier’s Watching My Lover
    • Patrick Lane's "The Carpenter"
    • Under the Weather
    • Robin Blaser’s "The Medium"
    • Ducks
    • Husky Volleyball Team Wins National Title
    • Success, What's That?
    • Better than Silence
    • Happy Holidays
    • A Sunny Winter Day
    • So You Made a Little Money
    • Alden Nowlan's "Britain Street"
    • Early Bird Without Caffeine
    • Raymond Souster's Poetry
    • Kingfisher
    • Reading 15 Canadian Poets x 3
    • Doing Nothing Can be Fun
    • Sir Galahad
    • The Biggest Land Grab of All
    • Go, Gavin!
    • When Birding Isn't
    • Environmental Action
    • Poof
    • Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
    • Fall in the Pacific Northwest
    • More Missed Shots
    • Belated Happy Anniversaries
    • Tempus Fugit
    • Pursuing Beauty
    • Better Than a Day at the DMV
    • Passionate Imbalance
    • Centered
    • Busy as a Bee
    • William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge
    • True Love
    • The Sound of Silence
    • Lens Envy
    • Fiddling
    • One Day
    • Photo for Dark, Drear Day
    • Ya Think?
    • Bees and Things
    • Standing at the Gates
    • Semper Fidelis
    • Two Worlds, Apart
    • O Brave New World
    • Painted Ladies
    • You Don't Have to Do Anything
    • Bring Your Own
    • You Should Have Seen the One that Got Away
    • Elaine Starkman
    • Under the Weather
    • More of the Same
    • Geranium
    • Saffron
    • Grrrr!
    • No Soaring Today
    • Thinking Outside the Frame
    • Lily
    • Leaves Of Grass
    • The Picture that Wasn’t
    • Who's Serving Who ?
    • Screwed
    • Through the Glass Darkly
    • Weathering the Storm
    • Crowned
    • Art Imitating Art
    • The Glass Hummingbird
    • The Fly
    • A Rainy Day
    • Decoy
    • Good Taste
    • Ready - Open
    • More Visitors to Tacoma
    • Tall Ships Visit Tacoma
    • The Beauty of Conquest
    • Alien or Predator?
    • Her Majesty
    • The Pause that Refreshes
    • Monkshood
    • In a Lael Moment
    • Pansy
    • Creeley's "What"
    • Up Close
    • Origami
    • Crash
    • Bumbling
    • Save PBS and Sesame Street
    • No One Knows
    • Carpé Diem
    • Mandala
    • Pt. Defiance Flowerfall
    • Kleinzahler's "An Autumnal Sketch"
    • Sensual
    • Hoover's "Poems We Can Understand"
    • William Corbett's "Wickson Plums"
    • Spent
    • Passion
    • Weed
    • Quiet Miracles
    • Stamping Out Gremlins
    • Black Knight
    • Riding High
    • New Look
    • The Ones that Got Away
    • On Vacation
    • Tough-Leaved Iris
    • Common Beauty
    • Fuzzy Blue Stars
    • Cloudy
    • Illlustrator Ordinaire
    • Tiger's Great
    • I Hate Paypal
    • Fishing With My Father
    • Looking Back, Dimly
    • Tyger, Tyger
    • Look, Gramps
    • Addicted
    • The Spider and The Rose
    • By Any Other Name
    • This Delicate Beauty
    • When You Care Enough
    • Indian Paintbrush
    • Hooded Boquet
    • Sentinel
    • Nostalgia
    • The Picture that Never Was
    • North's "A Few Facts About Me"
    • Herman Creek
    • The Taxman Cometh
    • Escape
    • Cherry Blossoms
    • Defiance Memorials
    • A Lazy Sunday Morning
    • Only for Maria
    • Four-Wheelin' Fun
    • The Long Haul
    • You Got To Cross That Line
    • The Cars that Have Owned Me
    • The Price of College
    • Have These People No Shame?
    • Don't Touch that Blogroll
    • Save the Artic Wilderness
    • Anselm Hollo
    • Far Out, Man
    • John Ashberry's "Paradoxes and Oxymorons"
    • What's Not to Like?
    • Everything's Coming Up
    • Creeley's "I Keep to Myself Such Measures"
    • Four Weeks, But Who's Counting
    • Denise Levertov
    • Paul Hoover's Postmodern American Poetry
    • Another Step Forward
    • Playing with Photoshop
    • Color Me Impatient
    • Two steps forward, one step back
    • Allenmore Nurses
    • Home at Last, Home at Last
    • Tomorrow's Another Day
    • Lookin' Good
    • Loren Lives!
    • Doing the Best I Can
    • Life is, indeed, a wonder
    • I Can Do It Myself
    • Forever Five
    • Nothing but a Heavy Fog
    • A Test of Character
    • Who's a Poor Sport?
    • Take Me Out to the Old Ballgame
    • Ichiro on Ichiro
    • Pure Chance
    • Finding Neverland
    • Betting the Hand You're Dealt
    • Sometimes it is the Big C
    • When the Big C Isn't
    • Another Year Younger
    • Out of the Depths
    • Amidst a World of Sorrow
    • From All of Us
    • Welcome
    • Trying to Make Today Count
    • This Card's for You
    • These Cunning Fetters
    • Just Trying to Keep Up
    • Team Unemployed
    • The Stock Market 'R US
    • The Republican's "New Economy"
    • Dreams of Riches for Everybody
    • Zoolights
    • Thomas Frank's One Market Under God
    • Buyer's Remorse
    • You Are What You Buy
    • Do You Own What I Own?
    • Trying to Protect What I Keep Inside
    • Living In a Hole, Body and Soul
    • Too Many Bridges Being Burnt
    • The Things that Own You
    • Sleeping with the Enemy
    • No Regrets
    • Give Me a Break
    • More Treat than Trick
    • Anyone Still Afraid the Bush Administration will Capture Bin Laden Before Tuesday's Election?
    • Has Florida Become a Third-World Dictatorship?
    • Election, What Election?
    • If dirt were dollars, We'd all be in the black
    • Bush Signs $140 Billion Corporate Tax Cut Bill
    • Flying Without a Net
    • Bush's Assault on the Environment
    • The Politics of Prescription Drugs
    • So That's Why I've Been Feeling Sick
    • Just Another Republican Lie, or a Sure Sign of Senility?
    • We Have Nothing to Fear, but Fear Itself?
    • It's My Lie, and I'm Sticking With It
    • Our Great Disneyland Adventure
    • I'm Spending This Anniversary at Disneyland
    • The GI Bill and the Middle Class
    • The High Cost of Education
    • A Ticket to Ride
    • Technology's Dark Side
    • I Ain't No Rock
    • Portents of America's Future ?
    • I Took the Road
    • The Shrinking Middle Class
    • Reasons to Vote
    • The Beginnings of Tragedy
    • Who Are You Calling Upper Class?
    • What's Really Getting Trampled Here?
    • Learning to Live with Who You Are
    • Time's Tyranny
    • Still Running in Circles
    • "I am a Patriot, And I Love My Country"
    • Rapaccini's Garden of Delights
    • Barack Obama and the American Dream
    • Last Light
    • Saving the Best for Last
    • Bubbling Over
    • Hiking Rocky Mountain National Park
    • Rocky Mountain High
    • Just Like a Man
    • BANG !!!!
    • Busy, Busy, Busy
    • Heaven Can Wait
    • Take Me Out to the Ball Game
    • Excuses, Excuses, Excuses
    • Please Help This Man Find His Way Home
    • A Long Weekend on the Island
    • Not Cheap, Frugal
    • Carpe´ Diem
    • The Cost of Free Speech
    • The Zen of Canon
    • Color me Tired
    • Here Yesterday, Gone Today
    • The Chains that Bind
    • Lives in the Balance
    • Unexpected Beauty
    • Buffeted by the Winds of War
    • Let's Pray for "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"
    • The Nature Within Us
    • Will Bush Blame Kerry for this War?
    • A New Axis of Evil ?
    • Move On
    • What's a Grandpa?
    • Say Hello to Kylan
    • Bleeding Hearts
    • Haikingu
    • Tacoma's W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory
    • Follow the Leader
    • One Trout, Hold the Mercury
    • A Single Tulip
    • Under Blue Skies
    • Scientists Join in Criticism of Bush
    • My Political Mea Culpa
    • Flowers Aren't the Only Thing Sprouting Around Here
    • Rhododendrons Springing Up Everywhere
    • A Brighter Day Awaits
    • There's Never Enough Time
    • Just Checking Back In
    • Can't We All Just Get Along?
    • C+, Your Site Lacks Unity.
    • Blogging Overload
    • What I did on my "day off"
    • Using Green Power to Defeat Bush
    • I Told You I was a Liberal, and Proud of It
    • Another OSP article
    • Hugo's White Center
    • A Snow Break
    • For Thinking Out Loud !!!
    • Can't Get Used To Something So Right
    • Judge Supports Banning of Snowmobiles in Yellowstone
    • ... It was The Worst of Times
    • It Was the Best of Times ...
    • Almost Well
    • She Doesn't Think She'll Keep Him
    • Longing to be Told
    • A Freeway Runs Through It
    • Bush's Energy Bill
    • Outside a Small Circle of Friends
    • Been Doin' a Litl Read'n
    • Mastering "The Big Lie"
    • It Ain't Me Cashing in on the Environment
    • Slip Slidin' Away
    • Excuses, Excuses, and More Excuses
    • Busy Weekend
    • If the Rain Don't Get Ya
    • It's Probably You and Me, Babe
    • Too Much Time on My Hands
    • Stormy Monday Blues
    • Open Source Politics Article
    • Open Source Politics Article
    • Still Out of It
    • The Tacoma Art Museum
    • Camp 6, Pt. Defiance Park
    • What I Did Tonight
    • Back on Line
    • Moving On
    • It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
    • Doing My Time
    • Is this the same as "being published"?
    • "Open Source Politics" Debuts
    • Now maybe I can get on with my life
    • Things are far too hectic around here
    • In Passing
    • Where Do the Children Play
    • Desperate Times
    • Setting My Priorities
    • He's Back
    • Those Old MacIntosh Blues
    • Marking Time
    • Hart Crane's "White Buildings"
    • Guest Blogger
    • The Picture of Calm
    • To Link or Not to Link
    • Playing Hooky
    • Pagels' Beyond Belief
    • The Gospel of Thomas
    • Maybe Mustee Should be Spelled Musty
    • Testing Time Stamp
    • Goofing Off
    • Got Those Moving On Blues
    • Walking Logan
    • Erratic Weblogger Warning
    • Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
    • Pardon My French
    • This Ain't No Poetry Blog, Neither
    • The Heart of the Matter
    • Loren's Been Thrown into a Dungeon and Forgotten
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