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FOTO FRIDAY: Beavers, natures hardest working architects.

  Near where I Live, there is a small natural lake, few by small seasonal streams and natural springs, I have been coming here since I was a small chiild and actually hunted and fished in the area. I even ran a trapline here when I was 10 yrs old.

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Rocks a Collection (Out of the Box)

To enjoy this small article and especially the pictures you might enjoy the later article, "Rocks a Collection."  Perhapes only a true rockhound, or collecter will appreciate the pictues I'm including.  This article contains pictures from the previous article, nothing n …

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Rocks a Collection

When I was young my grandfather and my uncles used to work in the copper mines around Globe and Miami, Arizona.  At times they would bring me some Fool’s Gold and often other beautiful rocks frome the mines.  There was a period of time when I had a cardboard box w …

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Hunting for meteorites and their clues to Earth's origins

Earlier this week, researchers at the University of Western Ontario in London spotted a meteor streaking through the sky with the help of their Southern Ontario Meteor Network, a combination of cameras, radar and shock-wave-detecting microphones set up at nine locations in sout …

El toro y la luna. (latin song translated)

The moon is combing it's hair, In the mirrors of the river, And the bull is watching her, In between the glass jar, hiding.   When the happy night arrives, And the moon goes hiding from the river, The young bull, goes into the water, Saddened that the she has gone.   Th …

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Stayed tune for a special broadcast, My life!

If it makes you cry, oh well, if it makes you laugh be my guest, if you think for any second that my hope will ever end you will be surprised and I might even surprised myself.  Google it, do some work: "go into hell for a heavenly cause..."

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Mount St. Helens, glaciers, and climate change

Mount St.

Weekend Exposure -- Ben Clement's Mineral Museum, Part 1

A few months ago, I wrote of meeting Mr. Ben E. Clement in Marion, Kentucky, and his wonderful kindness to me!  (See:  Ben Clement's Trash)  Mr.

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