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The Birds of Crane Creek Park

First I heard the woodpeckers. As I said in a previous post, Crane Creek Park was very quiet, and the steady rapid-fire knocking of the birds as they drilled holes carried to me from the clump of trees by the … Continue reading

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Christmas Eve, 2011

  Christmas Eve day we walked on the beach at Schooner Gulch. The sky was ceramic blue, but the ocean was a froth of silver and white. The beach was covered with rolls of sea-foam that looked like soap suds, … Continue reading

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