I hope everyone is safe and warm this Thanksgiving and that the bounty of your own garden can be shared with those you care about!…

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My garden decided to reward me again this morning as I tried in vain to run some errands. I no sooner stepped out the back door when I discovered a new born Black Swallowtail Butterfly drying it's wings on my chili pepper plants!

I bolted for my camera and began snapping away. It took a few moments before I realized that I had created a…

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When our area of the Gulf Coast received the good word that temps were going to drop drastically and quickly it was almost too much to believe. I made plans to tackle all the weeds that survived the drought that

fell like a sledge hammer after a summer of excessive rain and killer heat.

I received a midnight mail that drew me away from those plans and sent me back

to the Santa Rosa Sound for an early AM Tuesday rendezvous. It seems that there

have been…

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I can remember exactly where I was on "9/11".I am now a retired police officer, but at the time I was still working and had watched part of the destruction in New York on television before heading to work and then saw the destruction of both towers after arriving. The feeling of helplessness, as a 23 yr veteran cop, to not be able to do anything about what I was seeing, was overwhelming. Thoughts of that day still haunt me.

Today, I was not sure if there was something I could do, or some… Continue