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To you,
from The Holler,
silent Slytherins,
of the night,
& Happy Halloween!
My best guess creepy crawly identification in order are: Rustic Sphinx Moth, Green Darner Dragonfly, and the rarely seen, mildly venomous, nocturnal California Lyre snake. I welcome any corrections~
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Meep Meep’s secret speed source revealed!
(Let’s keep his secret just between us.)
Cheers to you from The Holler’s Monster Energy drinking always running Roadrunner~
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It’s September in SoCal,
so we’re having a heat wave.
We grabbed the family and headed to coastal Carlsbad for the week.
Life’s a beach,
and the fun doesn’t stop,
when the sun sets.
It just slows down,
and becomes more soulful.
Cheers to you from Carlsbad in September~
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At The Holler,
the surreal,
is sometimes,
real.
I photographed these unusual cloud formations last night when it was extremely hot and humid and the clouds seemed to dip from holding the weight of water.
Cheers to you from ‘the banks of the yellow sea’~
(poem attribution Emily Dickinson)
Late addition: Two brilliant bloggers identified these clouds for me as Asperitas Clouds only formally classified in 2017. Here is a reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperitas_(cloud)
I want to recognize both of these clever bloggers and thank them sincerely for their fascinating information.
The bloggers are :
https://40thousandkm.com/ and https://lynettedartycross.com/author/lynettedartycross/
Bloggers Rock!
Make a,
butterfly,
fly.
Practice maneuvers,
making art,
in the sky.
Cheers to you from The Sonoran Desert~
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You just need,
to be alone,
silent,
and still.
If you do this,
you will find,
that birds are avid people watchers!
Cheers to you from the always observant birdies~
Note: Featured birds are a Stellar Jay and American Robin.
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in Northern California,
is a blooming,
splendor.
Rhododendron grow riotously,
and water lillies,
abound.
Mendocino is less traveled,
allowing nature and people,
room to breathe.
Note: This last plant puzzled me. Do you know what it is without peeking? The flowers suggest foxglove, but the stalk was a mystery. I did lots of internet sleuthing to no avail, until I finally searched for mutant foxglove and found one example from Clemson University. Here is the citation:
Did you guess correctly? I certainly could not.
Cheers to you from blooming Mendocino~
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We are on the road again.
A Jaguar driverless taxi,
is a great way to roll!
No need to keep up conversation with your taxi driver.
There isn’t one!
Optimal for cruising over-crowded San Francisco.
You can fully enjoy the scenery without bickering about directions.
Back seat drivers are pointless because the car doesn’t care!
There are lots of these taxis ferrying people around Presidio National Park in San Francisco.
The Presidio,
is a blooming beauty this time of year.
Cheers to you from Presidio National Park in San Francisco~
(Note- WAYMO is a fleet of fully autonomous electric vehicles owned by Alphabet the parent company of Google. It has taxis available throughout San Francisco, and in designated areas of Los Angeles, Austin and Phoenix).
