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they were nestled in the high grasses and i didn’t know, but when i scared them, they scared me, and i was pleasantly surprised that i kept my presence of mind to trip the shutter Photography is…
kine ‘kīn archaic plural of cow Darkness had fallen on the feedlot and in the barns and on a normal evening we would have been up at the house settling in for the night. Preparation for the morning…
it’s a Toad and to me, it looks like it’s wearing the Egyptian garb of a king. you know the kind i mean ? with the headdress ? it strikes me as being very stately. How strange that nature…
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — that Mark Twain guy said that
Many people have sighed for the ‘good old days’ and regretted the ‘passing of the horse’, but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses. — C.W. Anderson said that
i have a difficult time with insects because they’re so creepy There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin said…
stop eating the tips of the fern ! After scolding one’s cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word and has filed it for reference. — Charlotte Gray…
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. — Iris Murdoch said that
The Federal guns sought the Confederate guns on the hills. They hurled solid shot and explosive shell, their iron insults shearing through oak and ash, brittle hickory, chestnut and elm. Outgunned two to one, with less reliable ordinance, the…
