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Miscellaneous cool pix...

Quite a hodge podge we have here...but mostly pictures of outdoorsy stuff, located in the tricounty area. (The hodgepodge of outdoorsy stuff outside of the tricounty area is located in Travel.)

20100105

It's cold out there:) 3 pix of ice crystal formations on our windows;) 05jan2010

 
20091226

I took this picture of a snowflake (or crystal) with my new xmas toy , one of those bendy-ball mini-tripods. Originally posted 26dec09. 26dec2009

 
20090425

I managed to make the sunrise ride again, and since the weather was splendid, I'm glad I did. Originally posted 25apr09. 25apr2009

 
20081029

Beautiful dawn bike ride, perhaps the first of the season . Originally posted 29oct08 29oct2008

 
20080614

Beautiful pink ladyslippers . Local if that means ``within the region covered by the RTP field guide for midwestern flowers...'' Originally posted 14jun08. 14jun2008

 
20080111

Photograph of a local river, taken shortly after the new year. Originally posted 11jan08. 11jan2008

 
20061128

Grevy's? zebra 28nov2006

 
20060625

Pintos and paints , plus sappy sentimentalizing over childhood toys. Yes, these two utterly disparate topics are related . Created and posted 25jun06, though some of the pix date from jun04. 25jun2006

 
20060527

Included really only for completeness' sake. 27may06 27may2006

 
20051209

Though this picture was taken in Jan05 I didn't get around to posting it till 09dec05. 09dec2005

 
20051201

Two pictures of the Huron river taken during the height of fall color—one very close to sunrise, 05nov06 . file created 30nov05 01dec2005

 
20050925

Another AABTS ride, to remember Charlotte Marcotte who was killed while cycling during aabts Saturday ride earlier this year. posted 25sep05 25sep2005

 
20050908

Maybury Park is one of the tri-county (it's right where Wayne, Washtenaw and Oakland counties intersect) area's hidden gems . 05sept05 08sep2005

 
20050612

Nichols Arboretum's glorious peony field . 12jun05 12jun2005

 
20050605

Many pictures of poppies taken during a June aabts ride. 05jun05 05jun2005

 
20050519

Celebrating the 2005 A2 Book Fair with a post about a fabulous tour during the 2004 event 19may2005

 
20050508

My very first pictures taken with my new digital Nikon coolpix 8400 . Created 2005may03 08may2005

 
20050503

Ruminations arising from the 2005 Metro Grand Spring (bicyle) Tour. 03may2005

 
20050211

People who ride in temperatures below 32d Farenheit are allowed to call themselves icebikers—even if they only do it once or twice a year. (And, yes, there really are people who do this regularly. Some of them live in places like Alaska, too.) 11feb2005

 
20040830

Did I mention bikes are great for taking pix of flowers? 30aug2004

 
20040817

Bikes are great for taking pix of flowers 17aug2004

 
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