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Critters Photography

Not just butterflies

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My last trip to the Botanical didn’t just result in some butterfly photos. I was also able to grab some photos of birds, including a rather proud looking goldfinch. Our bright fellow wasn’t by himself, though. This female goldfinch, with more subtle coloring, was busy either trying to hack loose […]

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Critters Photography

First Monarchs

I spotted my first monarchs this week, and managed to get a couple of photos of them and some of their friends at the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Monarch butterfly: I was finally able to capture an image of a Cabbage White. Though they are common, they’re difficult to photograph because they move about more than […]

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Political

Talk like a Pirate Day

An enormous, taxpayer-financed program to buy up bad mortgages and other distressed debt is necessary to protect the savings and aspirations of millions of Americans, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said on Friday. “We’re talking hundreds of billions” of dollars, Mr. Paulson said at a briefing in which he underscored the depth of the […]