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Tag: Wildlife

  • An Afternoon in Nature

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    Spent part of the afternoon canoeing Fish Lake visiting a family with a new set of triplets; watching a guy in tuxedo attire putting on a display trying to impress an equally well-dressed gal; and, back on shore, listening to a mother calling her kids from a high-rise . . . ??? In Jungle Book…

  • Wilderness Chronicles

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    A spruce hen and her chick perched safely above me . . . fresh imprints revealing a predator/prey pursuit . . . last fall’s bull moose antler scrapes . . . each a page in Mother Nature’s cycle of life that graced today’s wilderness wanderings. “For every creature of the forest is mine, and the…

  • All Creatures Great and Small

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    Last Frontier’s wildlife portrays Mother Nature’s calm and chaos . . . strength and stamina . . . beauty and barbarity. The cow moose scars are mostly likely from a foiled grizzly attack. “All creatures great and small. The Lord God made them all”. – James Herriot Keep Looking Up . . . His best…

  • Feral Friends

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    Never knowing which of our Last Frontier feral neighbors may decide to wander through our backyard is always an unanticipated treat. Here’s a vid clip of a recent impromptu fur and fowl ‘Splash Party’ 😊 Keep Looking Up . . . His best is yet to come!

  • Seasons Exchange

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    Snows receding from the mountains . . . Trumpeter swans nesting on the lake . . . Spring relinquishing to Summer . . . Seasons exchange in the Land of the Midnight Sun  “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1             …

  • My Last Frontier Backyard

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    People often ask, “Why do you love Alaska so much? . . . here’s a few pics taken in my backyard today . . . any further questions? 😊                         “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork“. -Psalm 19:1 I M Blessed . . . May U B 2   …

  • Bigfoot😊

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    On approach into Seattle, WA Mount Rainier impressively dominated the majestic Sierra Nevada Range panorama, and got my thoughts  to a-wandering . . . somewhere down there in the wilderness Bigfoot reportedly roams. Somehow, ‘Bigfoot’ doesn’t sound female ‘Cinderella appropriate’. However, the thought of a few ‘hes’ representing the sole members of the species lacks…

  • Small Wonders

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    Creation treated me to two small wonders on today’s woods wander. One, a ‘tree’ delicately inscribed on a fallen leaf.  The other, lighter than cotton; weigh for weight 5 times stronger than steel; 1,000 times thinner than a human hair; capable of stretching 4 times its length; consisting of 100% sticky protein, it’s manufactured by…

  • Bear-plosion!

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    Snowbirding between the Last Frontier and the Great Smoky Mountains is truly an undeserved blessing. Lately up here on the mountain – down in the ‘holler’ – by the ‘crick’ . . . we’ve been enjoying lotsa’ backyard bruin activity . . . all friendly . . .so it has been totally welcome and ‘Bearable’…

  • ‘Snappy’ Cutie

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    Young is synonymous with cute. Here’s a Ripley’s Believe It Or Not . . . I was once considered cute!  . . . back when still in diapers and dinosaurs roamed the earth 😊. Here’s a cutie that came floating down the creek today I scooped up in my hand . . . wouldn’t suggest…