U, V, W, X, Y & Z are for.....

I'm finally finishing this up. Sorry for taking so long.

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Grand Forks

Wild Turkey

First wild turkey we have seen since moving to MN 16 yrs ago. We see flocks of them back home in WI.

Young'uns

My kiddo (16) and my niece (18) right after her graduation in 2007. Oh to be that young again :)

X-Ray

Photo of my MRI x-ray
The date (yellow box, bottom right) 9/11/2001
Yep, moments after The Towers fell, I was stuck in a long tube.

Zoo Visit

Dolphin Show at MN Zoo

Kiddo horsing around after the show

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THANK FOR HOSTING THIS Quilly

Work in progress.

I am working on the final letters of the Alphabet Project. I should have them posted in the next day or so. I apologize for the delay. I have been extremely busy with outside chores and studying.

Here are a couple of shots I snapped on Tues (5/27) in a crabapple tree in my front yard. Last year, I hardly had any finches; this year, I have had 4 regulars in less than 2 days of having up my feeders. They seem to love the new sock-type feeder. Maybe it's the different feed? These birds are amazing to watch as they dart all over my front and back yard playing.



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"T" is for....

Tractor

John Deere green is a favorite color around these parts. The farmers have been getting into the fields for the past couple of weeks after a slow start on Spring planting.

Here's a cute video I found on YouTube set to Joe Diffie's song "John Deere Green."




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"S" is for....

Sunburned boy Snuggling with his dog

These were taken in the Winter of 96. The boy was 5 and the pup was 5 months. Aren't they just adorable :)

Correction: (thanks Dr. John)
We got the dog when the boy was 6½ so my dates above were WONKY! The boy is 7½ and the dog is about a year old

It was Summer 1998. That roll of film had stuff from the Summer of '97 to the Summer of '98. (I have several disks with mislabeled dates due to taking so long to develop film. Just another reason digital is so GREAT!)

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"R" is for...

Robin

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"Q" is for....

Quackers

These were taken last July 4th in Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls, WI.

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"P" is for...

These were taken last July 4th in Irvine Park in Chippewa Falls, WI.

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"O" is for...

Octogenarian

This is my maternal Gramma (Stewart). These were taken at her 81st birthday party in August of 1998. This sweet lady had 12 kids, 7 boys and 5 girls.

The fella with Gramma is her Uncle Curt. I believe he was 96. Their birthdays were very close. Uncle Curt's wife (not shown) was at the party as well and she was 92. I wonder if this means I am going to be living a long life...


I want to thank those who gave me recommendations on SLR cameras yesterday. I do appreciate it.

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"N" is for...

Nest

Today's photos are of an Eagle's nest. I was about 100 yards away. It was rainy and I didn't want to walk in a wet marsh. I also didn't want to annoy the birds by getting too close. Better zoom is one reason I want an SLR camera. (I'm taking recommendations).

I took these photos last June on the way to my niece's graduation. The eagles migrated during this past winter, which was new for this pair. They have not returned yet. While we have several in this area, I am hoping this pair returns. I've grown fond of watching them over the past several years.



More information about American Eagles can be found here:

• Wikipedia's Eagle entry
• American Bald Eagle Information
  
• All About Birds (Cornell Univ)
  
• American Eagle (Rolf Hickor Photography)
  
• American Eagle Foundation

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"M" is for...

Mural

This mural was painted on the side of the Lewis and Clark Elementary school in Grand Forks, ND. Here are a few interesting links on Lewis and Clark:

• Discovering Lewis and Clark
• PBS Lewis and Clark
• National Geographic Lewis and Clark
• Wikipedia Lewis and Clark

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"L" is for...

Light

See it peeking through the clouds....




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"K" is for...

Kith and Kin

From my mother's side, Great-Great Gramma Brown, Great Gramma Claflin and Gramma Stewart

Gramma Stewart with Uncle Glen (9 mos)

Gramma Claflin with her siblings. She was the only girl.


Gramma Stewart with Great Gramma Claflin holding Aunt Violet.
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"J" is for....

Japanese Garden

Grand Forks, ND at one time had a sister city in Japan. When Awano was annexed into a larger city which ended the relationship. Sertoma Park holds a couple of mementos from that relationship.








I apologize for the blurriness. I had a computer crash and lost several pictures, but found that I had uploaded some to Snapfish. It was too expensive to have them put on cd-rom so I simply saved them to my computer and resized them which accounts for some blurriness. I hope to spend an couple of hours this summer, retaking the pictures.

For more information on sister cities take a look at Sister Cities International. Here is a Wikipedia article on Town Twinning.

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"I" is for

Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race

While I do not have any pictures of dogs that were actually in the Iditarod race, I do have some of an actual sled dog. You can learn more about the Iditarod race here and here. Scholastic has some fun stuff about it here.

Now on to those pictures...






Smokie is half Samoyed and half Husky. She worked on a sled team in Pequot Lakes, MN when she was 1-3½ yrs old. She was given to me at that point and she's been a lazy house dog ever since. When I first got her, she hated being in the house. Now I can't get her out except for short periods of time. She loves to run and play, but doesn't know how to stay home :( She's 10½ now and these pictures were taken this month.

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"H" is for....

House

People House

Dog House

Bird House

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"G" is for....

Grand Forks, ND

Gazebo

Sorry I'm late tonight had a busy day with dropping of stuff at charity and Ladies Class at church.

Both pictures were taken along the west side of the river that borders East Grand Forks, MN and Grand Forks, ND. The river bordering the twin cities is called the Red River of the North.

Tidbit: This river flows north not south. During the Spring all eyes look south to gauge how bad the flood will be. Grand Forks to Fargo, ND, Pembina, ND to Grand Forks, Winnipeg, MB to Pembina. Here is an interesting webpage on northern flowing rivers

Luckily flooding was non-existent this Spring. Grand Forks suffered a horrible flood in the Spring of 1997.

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"F" is for

FRIENDS

Nollie is the black cat and Callie is the part Calico cat. They are constantly roughhousing or staring out windows together.


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"E" is for.....

Education

When deciding what to do for the letter E, I thought I could grab some of my son's books and stage them. Since we home school, there are tons of school books lying around. I also have some college texts still around from a couple of years ago. So I took a few pics and here is the best....

I had wanted to get my son to pose while studying, but he's not camera friendly. He used to love the camera until he became a teenager. I went and found this pic of my beautiful niece Sara that I took last year when she graduated to post. Hey, graduation is part of education :)



Still not happy, I went driving in the rain for a couple of pictures that would fit with this. All I came up with was.....




Of course, the best education occurs here :)



This project is going to be harder than I imagined.......

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