Tag Archives: #animals

Outback

Posted on November 7, 2018 by d4vid

The Outback is the color of rust.  Literally, the color of rust.  It looks like the surface of Mars or, considering the twisted flora & vicious fauna, probably more like Barsoom. I had a magical moment while driving north on … Continue reading →

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Equine

Posted on November 5, 2018 by d4vid

Reassured by this Anglican church with an open door, I stopped for the night in a town called Horsham.  Since Gotham means “goat home” I wondered if Horsham meant “horse home”.  The town does have racetrack, after all. But apparently … Continue reading →

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Cockatoo

Posted on November 5, 2018 by d4vid

En route to Melbourne, saw lots of sulphur-created cockatoos (like the one from Wikipedia above) all just standing around the side of the road, like pompadoured street toughs loitering on a stoop.

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Antipodes

Posted on November 3, 2018 by d4vid

First impressions of Australia?  Much like the western coast of New Zealand on the other side of the Tasman Sea, it reminds me a lot of San Diego! Although, sadly, a San Diego dotted with kangaroo roadkill in every conceivable phase … Continue reading →

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Cervine

Posted on October 3, 2018 by d4vid

I saw a family of deer grazing on the side of the highway as I drove home from work.  Delightful.  And they weren’t nearly as pushy as the turkeys.

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Meleagrine

Posted on September 20, 2018 by d4vid

Driving the quiet, winding, forest route to work this morning, I had to stop to wait for a line of wild turkey to cross the road.

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Fraternal

Posted on July 31, 2018 by d4vid

I was down in San Diego spending time with my brother and his family.  He took me on a (whirlwind) visit to the zoo.  We figured it was the first time we had been to the San Diego Zoo together … Continue reading →

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Source

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Found it.  This is where all pigeons come from.  I assume they are then shipped to all the major cities in North America via train.

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Nest

Posted on March 26, 2018 by d4vid

I stopped at a scenic overlook of the New River.  Two local women where already there, looking out at the island in the middle of the river with their gigantic binoculars.They offered me a chance to look through their binoculars.  … Continue reading →

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Fauna

Posted on March 18, 2018 by d4vid

Directly across the street from the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a grand monument to George Washington.Like the four great rivers represented in Rome’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, each of the four corners of the monument celebrate the megafauna important to … Continue reading →

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Totality

Posted on August 21, 2017 by d4vid

On the day of the solar eclipse, I left at 6am and drove north from Boise up the 55 and past Cascade Lake, passing the huge crowds parking in any open fields.  I headed east, taking a sleepy backroad into … Continue reading →

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Flutists

Posted on February 13, 2017 by d4vid

First of the cruise‘s shore excursions was south of the Three Gorges Dam to a “village” of the Tujia people (eighth largest of China’s fifty plus ethnic minorities.)  I was particularly intrigued because their name written in Chinese is 土家 which literally … Continue reading →

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Nature

Posted on February 9, 2017 by d4vid

I finally got around to visiting the Shanghai Natural History Museum that opened last year.  It has an interesting corkscrew design, half of it underground and with a central atrium.The roof is covered with a lawn which both reduces the … Continue reading →

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Abomination

Posted on February 9, 2017 by d4vid

 Kill it!  Kill it with fire!

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Silk III

Posted on January 30, 2017 by d4vid

Remember this thing?  The Colosseum tchotchke I bought in Rome?  The one made in China? I had an idea.  I brought the mini-Colosseum with me to Xinjiang. Now, I think of myself as a Romantic.  And I do things other people wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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