Author: fridaygrrl
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Yellowstone Winter 2024
Amy and I took Amtrak from Ann Arbor to Chicago, then boarded the Empire Builder for a multi-day train trip through Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. In Havre, we boarded a bus to Great Falls. We spent one night in an Airbnb, then rented a car and headed to Giant Springs State Park, then… Read more …
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Supernatural: A Short Story
Your adult son introduces you to Beat Saber because he knows you love music (and because you were the mean mom who wouldn’t let him have a Nintendo when he was a kid.) You get the VR headset because you’re climbing out of a car-crash crevasse in which lay the wreckage of a poisonous situationship… Read more …
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Silkwood Lodge
Backyard Biodiversity These images were all taken in my backyard or immediate neighborhood in eastern Sarasota County. We have ugly perfect suburban lawns and icky edgy hedges. Everything manicured within an inch of its life and gallons of pesticide and herbicide to make it all work. But the wildlife comes to visit and live, and… Read more …
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Animals Anthropomorphized
When I’m curating images, sometimes I come across animals with funny expressions or poses and I think, I could pair that with some song lyrics or a message and make a fun card or picture! This happens a lot, and goes into my brain’s that’s-a-great-idea file, where it languishes with many other creative aspirations. So… Read more …
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K9 Finleigh
After deploying in Abaco after Hurricane Dorian, I returned to the US determined to fulfill a decades-old dream of being a K9 handler. The timing wasn’t right when I was still an LEO, and I was already on a specialized unit (dive team). So I located a volunteer SAR team near me, reached out, and… Read more …
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Marvelous Mammals
Very late in updating this, since I have two photo tours to add, including coyotes and bison and bears. Read more …
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Hurricane Dorian Relief 2019
Abaco Islands, The Bahamas On Sept. 1, 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the Abaco Islands, The Bahamas, as one of the strongest storms ever recorded. A 20-plus-foot wall of water—a deadly storm surge—engulfed Abaco, leveling nearly everything in its path and taking with it likely thousands of lives as it receded. The storm hovered over the… Read more …
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New Hampshire 2019
My good friends Tracy and David Grilli invited me to their mountain cabin to see some New England-style fall colors. David, a fellow photographer, and I took the opportunity to do a fall tour of the area. We hit his favorite fishing streams and lakes and did some beautiful hikes in remote areas. He had… Read more …
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Milford Mixed Family
The Kensington Metropark sandhill crane family that hatched and adopted a goose This spring I was thrilled to finally meet the famous sandhill crane couple who had adopted a Canada gosling and were raising it alongside their colt. The blended family lived in Kensington Metropark in Milford, MI. The goose learned to be a proper… Read more …
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Milford Summer 2019
This summer I spent some time helping Amy set up a new computer and getting a new website started for Jeff for the family business, Plumbers Service. But in our off times, we wandered around their beautiful backyard and made several trips to Kensington Metropark. Read more …
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Alaska 2019
For this second trip to Alaska, we did a family thing, meeting at an Airbnb in Anchorage, then traveling together to the Glacier Lodge and Camp Denali, on another amazing Lightminded Tours trip with the even more amazing Wayde Carroll. We visited the town of Talkeetna, where a few in our party went flight seeing… Read more …
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Events and Business
Just an assortment of pics I enjoyed taking, even though they aren’t of wildlife (except for a few of these characters). Read more …
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Peru 2018
This trip was one for the record books. Friends Geraldine and Ellen and sister Amy and I set out to hike the Inca Trail. When we landed in Cusco, which sits just under 12K feet, we were told to relax and not do anything. We didn’t listen to this good advice, and I got altitude… Read more …
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Silkwood Sandhills
Sookie & Bill Sandhill raise a family This sandhill crane couple, whom I call Sookie and Bill Sandhill, have made their home around the manmade lakes of Bent Tree Village and The Woodlands. They used to make a nest on the littoral shelf, but apparently that’s sunk too low now. Last year, Sookie laid her… Read more …
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Have Gumption, Will Travel
This essay was for a contest (with a strict word limit) that the Hardwick Gazette in Vermont ran in 2016. The winner would get the newspaper and the old building it lived in. Things in my life were changing but not fast enough, and I never sent it in. The contest was canceled due to… Read more …
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Red Death 2018
A local grassroots organization, Hands Along the Water, organized a statewide demonstration during the red tide outbreak that killed an astonishing number of creatures and sickened people who lived nearby. Thousands of people spread across many Gulf Coast beaches and joined hands. The masks were not for show, as red tide causes respiratory distress. Along… Read more …
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Alaska 2018
This was my first trip to Alaska, and I’ve wanted to go back every summer since then. Amy and I joined Wayde Carroll and a few other Lightminded Tour participants at the remote Silver Salmon Creek Lodge. The lodge is located within Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, accessible only by boat and seaplane. I… Read more …
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Beautiful Birds
Birds amaze me with their incredible differences. Tiny little dinosaurs in all shapes and sizes that we can look at and talk to. And take pics of. What’s not to love? Read more …
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