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  1. bobpbx

    No-see-ums

    From the link: "Larvae need moisture to develop, but also air and food. They are not strictly aquatic or terrestrial." But of course, since I've never seen 'em, that is just my guess. I'll have to investigate. Maybe they're those small asian tiger mosquitoes.
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    No-see-ums

    No Scott, in fact my elevation here is 110 feet. But, there is a quick drop to a creek that runs into the pine plains. But it does have phragmites etc.
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    No-see-ums

    I simply cannot walk on a lawn at all if I'm in shorts. These (I suppose I'm correct, cause I never see um) little pricks prick me all over. Anyone else get them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae
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    Game Camera

    I think a cat, likely feral.
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    Timing for flowers

    These are notoriously hard to photograph. These are thread-leaf sundew flowers. I did a little editing to this one.
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    Timing for flowers

    In my pines rambling, I have a calender in my mind that tells me when plants are in bloom. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But either way, I like seeing them every new year. This is from the Oswego River area. The white orchid was really beefy, maybe 6" tall. In the lower left is...
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    Introducing the Landscape of the United States series

    Boyd, can your list have folders? While the landscapes maps are important to have, it might be good to have it all in one folder, as it likely won't be used as much.
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    Introducing the Landscape of the United States series

    Here's something odd. If you start at about 2018 in landscape on Warren Grove Bombing Range, and then cycle up year by year to 2024, it looks like they clear land, then let it grow in. Or maybe it's just where they burn, and then a couple years later it's green again. ?
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    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    When I got a $436 bill for gas heating this past January, I joked with people that I would use plastic to make a cocoon for me in my bed and master bath and stay there in the winter. Those canned recessed lights throughout the house when built were sucking all the heat out. I bought all LED...
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    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    I got my electric bill today for the period from 12 June to 11 July. $138.45 I did not turn on the air until right before that stinking hot week in late June. And I have it set at 78 degrees and I use fans to blow it around. Still, I bet the next one will be double.
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    Music for the day

    I had a cassette player in my 75 jeep CJ5. I had this tape (I Robot, by the Alan Parsons Project) for a long, long time. This song was a good one. Great start to it. "I wouldn't want to be like you" If I had a mind to I wouldn't want to think like you And if I had time to I wouldn't want to...
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    Music for the day

    That went very well! Gabe's playing was spot on. I remember at least two of those songs.
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    Missing Woman

    What we need is an image of James “Scott” Dunn. Is that him in the photo.
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    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    Yes, here in Manahawkin someone was drumming on the roof for quite awhile.
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    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    I was shocked at how humid it was in Cape May yesterday. I was in a swamp for an hour and when I came out my clothes were soaked through. It's actually worrisome, is this is how every summer is going to be for awhile? I wondered what the dew point was so found this site below. The dewpoint was...
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    Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

    Maybe that Texas incident spooked the weather forecasters.
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    Visiting the ruins of the Batsto trestle

    By the way, I'd go for a footbridge that people can visit, with one of those old time wrought iron(?) signs giving a very brief history of what was there. Of course, the dirt bikers could not resist........
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    Visiting the ruins of the Batsto trestle

    It is a bygone era now, and our memories will recall it fondly. But now, it's important for the authorities to remove all trace of it and the tracks all the way to the ecotone were the cedar swamps border the river. Far better that than to leave the hulking remant there to mar the landscape for...
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    Music for the day

    That white boy George had real soul. I once missed an important concert. He played at the Sunset View Inn in Browns Mills, and I was not quick enough to realize it, so did not make it in. I really liked him, and still have his solo album "Thanks, I'll eat it here". Unfortunately, he died very...
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