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Pink
To northern eyes tired with dreary colors and wintry whites and greys, the sighting of a Roseate Spoonbill all resplendent in its pink feathers is such a welcome visual treat in Florida. The bare greenish head and broad flattened bill that it swishes around underwater or through shallow mud looking for small fish and crustaceans…
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One Human Family
A group of neighbors walking to show solidarity and to reaffirm the spirit of friendliness on a recent warm Fall afternoon gave me reason to smile and to appreciate the fact that we are not alone in this mess. The pandemic is bad enough. More than 214,000 dead and over 7.7 million infected with the…
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Selamat Datang [Welcome]
Life has no boundaries when every place can be home – Jen Shyu Singapore is not just every place – it is the land of my birth. It is where most of my family lives. I was raised and educated there and worked for close to a decade before moving to the United States. I…
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Red Bug Lessons
A recent environmental hike in a nature preserve just ten minutes from where we live in the winter, turned out to be not just educational but purposeful as well. The place we ventured to is named Red Bug Slough (pronounced sloo). A slough is basically a slow-moving shallow drainage system. Our walk took us through…
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Reconfiguring
I find it hard to believe that the year is almost at an end and I have yet to add to this blog. Quite simply, my lack of action is pathetic. I have no excuse other than I did not feel the need to write and I was just bumming. While this blog has focused…
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Limbo
When I actually start a writing project, doing the research and pondering how to present the facts, I can very easily get back into what I’ve enjoyed doing for so many years. But there have been many times in the last few years when inspiration was lacking and the desire to report, weak. Good observations…
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Pemaquid Rocks
We think we’re off to see a lighthouse, but it is the ROCKS that steal the show at Pemaquid Point, at the south end of Maine’s Route 130. Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, these beauties were once deep sea sediments. Hoisted by heat and pressure within the earth’s crust, they changed into the metamorphic combinations…
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Collioure Color
Just two and half hours away by car from Barcelona is the idyllic French Catalan village of Collioure. It’s natural beauty has attracted many painters including Matisse, Picasso, Derain and Chagall amongst others. We ain’t painters, but we sure loved the color!
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Bold Barcelona
Spain’s second largest city is also perhaps it’s most interesting. Innovative, vibrant and just plain beautiful! I could not help admiring the buildings and lovely wrought iron balconies so common in Barcelona. There are many, many, small alley ways here and one can get lost very easily. One minute you’re on track, and then you’re hopelessly astray.…
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