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		<title>Visitor that freaked out Darwin and inspired Alien</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My wife and I usually exchange ongoing critter sightings around our little suburban &#8220;preserve.&#8221; Earlier this month, she called me out to see a rather unique one. Some kind of very large wasp was just hanging out on the trunk of one of our trees. &#8220;Very large&#8221; meaning body about 2 inches (5 cm) along [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Backyard Ferns and Jewelweed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ideas for photos don&#8217;t always align with my abilities to execute them. I feel like I should have that made into a t-shirt, given how many times I&#8217;ve thought it to myself. I may have an idea that I have a general concept of how I will develop it, but as they say, the devil [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nature&#8217;s Newsfeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Winter is usually a slow photography time, but I get out when the conditions call. We&#8217;ve had a good dose of snow this year, but it primarily came over a short period. Nowhere near the amounts some areas impacted by the lake effect snow had. After last year&#8217;s mild winter and low ice coverage in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Twenty-Twenty Four</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Continuing with a tradition that began in 2007, I am once again finalizing some of my favorite images from the past year. I guess you could call this Volume 18. Wow, eighteen years of this stuff.1 Nonetheless, It is a process that forces me to consider which particular photos stood out to me personally or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jimmy Carter 1924-2024</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 02:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Jimmy Carter, RIP 1924-2024 While I do not have a photo of me with the former President, I do have photos that are direct results of one of his acts, the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which created the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska. With that, I could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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