I couldn’t resist. After tucking into our Saturday morning pancakes, my little red SONY® and I plowed through drifts and wandered in our park. I was besotted with the abject beauty, which SONY faithfully recorded for me. From this snowy scramble, I clipped three small shoots of red osier dogwood which are now set into [...]
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More glimpses of winter, and other wild stuff . . .
Posted in Bird Migrations, Black Bear, Canada geese, Cougars in Wisconsin, Country Roads, Spring Music!, Spring!, Swans, Wisconsin wildlife, Wolves in Wisconsin, tagged Cattle Egret, Cormorants, Eagles in Wisconsin, Henry David Thoreau, WIld Wisconsin, Wisconsin wolves and bears on March 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
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Posted in Black Bear, Cougars in Wisconsin, Creative Living, Creative minds are never bored!, The Wonderful World of Nature, Virginia Whitetail Deer, Wild Wisconsin, Wolves in Wisconsin, tagged Black Bears in Wisconsin, Cougars in Wisconsin, Fun and Funky, Nostalgic Reflections, The Wonderful World of Nature, Virginia Whitetail Deer in Wisconsin, Wisconsin DNR, Wolves in Wisconsin on July 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
One of the many perks here at our pleasant Nashotah home is the fact that in our very same building there is a man who has a northern home just a short distance from where we lived up north, near Phillips. Wisconsin. Earl gets up north frequently, something we’d hoped to do but so far haven’t [...]
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