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Apr 20, 4:59pm
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Memphis Light Gas and Water cleared trees next to the power lines earlier this year. They saved the squirrels' nest, but it was exposed to wind and weather and came down during a storm.
The squirrels moved to a water oak in our backyard. The nest doesn't look all that great, just a pile of sticks and straw, but they have produced a new generation nevertheless.
We like our squirrels, I know many regard them as a pest, but they are entertaining to us.
This is the mother, I found that out today.
One of the fairly newborn approaching the mother in a determined way.
He won't take no for an answer.
Enjoying lunch.
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Apr 20, 12:13pm
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Apr 18, 9:41pm
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StumbleUpon - thewhizzers web site reviews and blog
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Apr 18, 9:32pm
9 reviews
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Mick, my very good Australian friend shares his life
and his experiences with us in his blogs, both here on stumble
and in Whizzer's Hangout
iamunglued.blogspot.com [iamunglued.blogspot.com] where he has some fascinating images and movie clips.
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StumbleUpon - akapearlofagirls web site reviews and blog
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Apr 18, 8:36pm
268 reviews
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Sharp mind, big heart.
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Apr 17, 4:35pm
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Harbor Town
 
I spent an hour, I believe, driving and walking around in Harbor Town. It is different from any other place in Memphis.
It is all fairly new, the architecture isn't exactly uniform, but all buildings seem to belong and definitely southern.
My wife will correct me on this, if I'm wrong, but I think the town WaterColor in Florida is an exact match to this little village. I also believe that the movie "The Truman show" was made there.
(I know my wife: "The correct town is SeaSide, not WaterColor"...)
 
The city of Memphis is just a stone's throw away, across Wolf River. Plenty of water still, it is licking the basements of the buildings next to the water.
 
The nesting birds didn't seem to worry too much, no vacancies in this condominium.
 
I was surprised to find the grocery store / deli / cafeteria filled with customers. It was indeed lunch time, but this place doesn't seem like an office area. I had no idea that people actually have their jobs here. Not a bad place to be working or / and living in, it is quiet and it feels safe. I saw a few young mothers with their children at the playgrounds, they seemed very comfortable.
 
There are lots of BMWs and other expensive cars here, I'd say that the typical residents are fairly well off and equally young, in their 30s, maybe 40s.
 
I saw vines climbing at almost every house, I wish mine would grow like that.
 
I would miss my back yard. And the next door is a little bit too close to my taste. But it is a comfortable, modern and safe area.
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Apr 15, 6:07pm
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![]() Tuesday, April 15
It has been one of those precious days. Perfectly blue skies, no wind and temperature recovering from frost this morning to a very pleasant noon. I invoked my rights as a senior citizen to take the day off and do precisely nothing.
Nothing meant driving around in the outskirts of Memphis. I was hoping to catch some wild life in Shelby Farms, but I was too late in the day and other colleagues had had the same idea as I, and were spread out all over the park.
Whatever wild life there is had retracted to the deeper woods.
I studied the various fishing techniques around the pond.
The only submarine life I could detect was a snapping turtle with an attitude.
I drove from Shelby Farms through the city to the big river. People relaxing here, too. Water is still high, the river may have crested. There is a heap of driftwood and debris along the new shoreline, it will take time to restore the area after the flood. I hope the trees will make it, they seem to have survived floodings before.
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Apr 14, 1:20pm
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My wife spotted these big birds while we were out driving the other day. I think they are Turkey Buzzards or rather Turkey Vultures. They have nasty food habits, prefer road kills and carcases, the more decomposed, the better. But they help keeping nature clean and healthy. And they are beautiful when they fly.
I couldn't get as close as I had wanted to, this is a blown up part of another photo of the bird.
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Apr 12, 8:09pm
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To Oxford, Mississppi
My wife is almost as eager as I to take day trips on Saturdays. So we decided to drive to Oxford, some 60 miles from Memphis. I have always wanted to see the Sardis lake, since it is long enough and wide enough to resemble the open sea. I have that craving for open horizons sometimes. You can pass the lake, driving from Memphis to Oxford. Most of the road is otherwise pretty much like this photo, just a straight line drawn through the landscape, with a few hills here and there.
This is a more fun road, leading to and from the lake.
Someone imported a vine from Eastern Asia to prevent soil erosion. It is fast growing and covers the ground quickly. However, it grows way to well and has become a real plague, killing trees and bushes over wide areas. The grayish cover on the trees in the foreground is this vine from last year, it hasn't quite started this season yet.
The weed grows fast enough to kill trucks, too..
Sardis lake is an artificial lake and the view from the top of the dam is what I had been waiting for.
I like this kind of Humor.
Next to the lake.
A smaller lake downstream the big one.
That's where most of the people were today.
Not quite the Pacific, but for me it was a joy to see open waters to the horizon.
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