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Critters

Bunnies

I have a thing for bunnies. When I was a kid I lived on a farm and the place next door raised rabbits and draft horses. Since the people who owned this place really liked kids and let me play with the rabbits (and ride the horses), I’ve always had a fondness for bunnies. So […]

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Critters Photography

San Diego zoo

Hi! This is your favorite professional writer who hacks a weblog even though we’re not supposed to. I’m bringing you today’s copy of “Where the Blog Turns”. When last seen our intrepid weblogger was braving the wilds of San Diego zoo. We’ll go live to Burningbird, at the zoo: Hello? Hello, can you hear me? […]

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Environment

Stellar Fingerprints

When you look at the night sky from your backyard, do you sometimes think that there is no order to all of those stars out there? If the star isn’t part of a well known constellation, is it nothing more than a point of light in a sea of other points of light? Nothing that […]

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Critters Writing

A Tale of 2 Monsters Part 4: Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are many creatures that live in our myths and our minds, but the most famous is probably Scotland’s Nessie, or the Loch Ness Monster. But first, let me digress and talk about another lake monster, one a little closer to home: Lake Champlain’s Champ. We used to live on […]

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Critters Writing

A Tale of 2 Monsters Part 3: Architeuthis Dux

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.   Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee Above his shadowy sides: above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a […]