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Gay coyote-with-a-hint-of-collie in a redwood forest. Art, pictures, words, fiddle, equestrian, handler of a beloved and diverse pack. She/her, flexibly. 18+ Pedestrian wolf; animal eloquence, sometimes.

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River and Plumeria spending some garden time ...yeah these 2 don't love each other at all or anything

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I mean this is about the most wholesomely 'merican thing I seen all day

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Walking Banjo to the corner store at 10pm for beer and frozen pizza is about all the ‘Merica I’ve got in me.

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While many ducks have a coloured wing patch, the Northern Shoveler said “give me two!” Add the green head, the spoon-like bill and the orange feet, and they are a package! This male northern shoveler decided to fly to the other side of the marsh to check out the foraging options!🪶

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This is the classic rock radio station I would sometimes listen to when I was a kid

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a small, brightly colored reef feels, strongly, that I should Feed The Fish Now. These are Lake Malawi mbuna cichlids, mostly electric yellow labs (no really) and they are alert, intelligent little friends.

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Mako and I are going to do a dog show this weekend; one of my fave shows in one of my fave towns, Ferndale, which has great coastal weather. Shark Dude has now been washed in many fine products; I'll trim paws tonight and maybe bathe again in the AM. He might win something and we'll have fun!

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So it turns out that the weirdest animal in Lake Baikal is not the freshwater seal. No, it's the GODDAMN CHIRONOMID MIDGES WHOSE LARVAE LIVE AT OVER 1300 METERS IN DEPTH WHILE THE ADULTS ARE WINGED INSECTS

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Seeing this was profound: it's massive and creates space in a way pics don't quite convey. The original must be so emotional; it must have been extraordinary to the ancients. This one is weirdly a monument to historical misunderstanding, how meaning changes over time and human love of epic spaces.

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Maryhill's weird, epic, monumental Stonehenge replica and its vistas

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Yes I ended my talk with a poetry reading. I send this poem to my parents every 4th of July. Here it is in full if you've never read it: poets.org/poem/let-ame...

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cool old place. The interior is full of junk; it would be neat if this was a little museum as are some of the ghost buildings in Shaniko (we'll get there)

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Maryhill also has a ghost station, where only the memory of gasoline is served. it's across from the 1888 church.

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Little birds, just hatched! cheep cheep cheep cheep The 2 in the middle with the cute head tooft might be Polish or part, since I have a pair in the flock, but some of the others also have head fluff. The last one is so pretty! All 4 of you need to be pullets, ok guys?

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Anyway, your semi-regular reminder that no one's worth is in their ability to be productive. You're a living being. You have worth, period.

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doggie, you cannot be both innocent and planning a heist right now at this very moment

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horrified by the war, he likened fallen soldiers to human sacrifices and was inspired to raise this extraordinary reproduction. Stonehenge's likely actual ancient use was as a solar calendar; while this one is aligned accurately, local geology is such that it doesn't 'work' like the original does.

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turns out that this is a WW1 memorial, the country's first, with construction beginning before the war was over. A rich guy who owned a lot of Maryhill visited Stonehenge and was told that human sacrifices had been made there in ancient times (something that is no longer believed to be true).

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The Maryhill Stonehenge is a fascinating monument and was a good place to rest Trout and Mako, who were at this point pretty tired. ...wait what? why is there a cement replica of Stonehenge (restored to like-new condition) in Maryhill? This thing looks absolutely surreal...

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details from Maryhill's church. I bet their museum is wonderful; I didn't have time to go, but it's an area attraction of note.

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Maryhill has a pretty 1888 church with nice windows and detail. Well cared for and loved, but sadly one of the side windows was broken. Hopefully its carers will fix that, but I did get a nice shot of the inside.

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The next stop along the way was Maryhill, the point where our path diverged from the Columbia. This is a beautiful place, with campgrounds and peach orchards on the rivershore, and a lot of interesting history.

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Desert, river. At the confluence of John Day and Columbia

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Some splashing and some zooming at the John Day river

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hahah YEP sounds like a hound!!!!! so much drama

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The legs are resilient and enormously strong, but they are prone to weird athletic injuries, especially when young, and often get little nicks and cuts from running past things at high speed. SOME youngsters have to learn the barn will not duck out of the way, no matter how fast they are.

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Sometimes they seem so coordinated and intentional that it seems like they are! I am definitely not calling figures for them though, so maybe it's more like ballroom

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Shades of blue with ice and desert caught between: view of Mt. Hood from the confluence of the John Day and Columbia rivers. Yeah I saw this from the road while driving and realized I needed to stop and stare at it for a minute til my brain started working again. Impossibly beautiful. So real.

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More Russian Houndballet Mako and Trout having a well deserved zoom. My plan to stop anywhere that looked interesting or good for the dogs on the way back from Washington turned out well.

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Road trip log continues; this seems like a great day to post pics of happy dogs. After the show, we found a spot where fishboys could have a good tear and get entirely wet and filthy. Then we all went for a swim in the John Day river, which was great.

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I was really shocked to learn how many public pools have been lost bc of racism. There's a racial link to loss of amusement parks, too. Building expansive new public pools seems like an important civic priority.

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brought the four year old to a public splash pad this afternoon and he had a blast and so did every other kid there anyway sometimes I think about the people who filled in or drained public pools rather than allow them to be used by kids of a different race and just how fucking evil that is

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I get tired!!! At one point I was doing advanced and then intermediate back to back, 60m each, with the 30m floor time at the beginning, when the jumps are out. It was too much. And now they both need the advanced class, so they can just share! And both practice crate patience.

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...most importantly, I have corrected the truly appalling oversight of taking a HOUND to HER obedience class, AND NO COLLIE. Ah well, a collie must remember that they are only human and that patient consistence is needed to shape their behavior.

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I maybe solved the 'River and Mako need the same class' problem by taking both of them, making sure I get the whole half hour floor time before it starts, and switching dogs. 1.30 of obedience instruction fatigues a yearling zoi emotionally; River will work forever, but rests help her focus.

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The world is so grim right now. I'm so worried. Finding the right balance between awareness of what is going on and quality self care is hard. Focusing on this sweet little creature helps me even think about the problems, sometimes.

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“The drug manufacturer Merck now lists Covid as the third most common cause of lymphocytopenia, right behind HIV. What's lymphocytopenia? It's immunodeficiency. …A pharmaceutical giant like Merck doesn't say something like that unless it's definitive.” COVID IS NOT MILD. Avoid infection, N95😷

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The Reflection Cat, Orion Lion and Sonata say, purrrr

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Neat! I'm pretty sure my local site would have also been Miwok (or Pomo). This seems to have been a pretty common and sensible approach to food prep.

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