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Mornings are awesome!

  Above images are of my Labyrinth. I never use to be a morning person, actually, I hated mornings.. dreaded getting up and out to start a hectic day so I effectively missed all of the beauty that the...

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Where Butterflies go at dusk..

Day and night may find me out on our half acre, among the flowers, vines and trees looking for and exploring “the secrets of nature.”  I had never wondered prior, where the butterflies go at dusk.  I...

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Dog Days of Summer..

Above:   Orion and Sirius, The Dog Star. Our South West Florida Summers are renowned for their heat and humidity.  Growing up, during Summer our gardening efforts ceased except for a few tomatoes and...

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The Perseid Meteor Shower or, The Tears of St. Lawrence.

The Perseid meteors appear to stream away from the shower’s “radiant” point near the border of Perseus and Cassiopeia. Under dark-sky conditions, you may see an average of one a minute around the time...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Near and Far

     a fledgling Owl sits in a pine bough, under a Waxing moon. Purchase this image here   All images by Linda Jacobson, Visit my image galleries here

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Make time to see the Stars..

A Star Gazing moment. South West Florida, All times are in EST. a Color Star Chart for January to Print out.   With the mayhem of the Fiscal Cliff and the rush of the Holidays OVER  (at least for now)...

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a Backyard Universe of Vegetables!

I enjoy veggie gardening as much as I enjoy going out on the trails or star-gazing…  not only is gardening, planting things, good for the mind and body, but also for the soul..   Gardening gets you out...

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a Little Bird Said: Go Star-Gazing SW Florida !

I woke to the calls of a brilliant red sentinel Cardinal sitting up in the tops of the Mulberry Tree..  Today I’m planting out Nasturtium seedlings into pots and then  working on tonights Observing...

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Picked too soon.. in aBackyard Universe.

The little garden has been plodding right along, regardless of the intermittent just-under-a-freeze-warning type temperatures we have had here in South West Florida (today it’s warm out!)  I got home...

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Butterflies and Stars all in a morning!

One of the many benefits to getting up sooo early… early being, before Sunrise is that you get to watch the butterflies warming up in the morning light.  Do you like to do photography? Go out early and...

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