Interesting! Do you mean a black bear?
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I typed black bear and for whatever reason it changed it to that. I’ll fix it. My phone is acting so bad I’ll probably get a new one sometime in the next month. The screen is really cracked but I can still read easily enough off of it but despite being a iPhone that is constantly upgraded I am thinking becsuse I’ve had it for going on six years or so it’s just messing up. Really bad on the last 2-3 updates. It’s a 7+ and probably getting phased out.
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Yeah I’ve been trying to find them for about 3 years now. They get seen a few times a year. The island is like 18 miles long and there are a few other islands that are like 1/6th of a mile off and they have been seen swimming across the Gulf of Mexico to these other close islands. The red wolves are still on them as well. Not seen them yet either. Though their taxonomy is being debated I think but it may be settled by now.
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That makes way more sense! XD (Autofill and autocorrect are my worst enemas. ; - )
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Last week we had an excavator in an adjoining property, but this week we have cranes in the sky. The latter is preferable.
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We’ve seen some cranes here in MIchigan, too! They look kind of cold–but they must be finding something to eat, in spite of the snow. Your sky is beautiful. Thanks.
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That would be cool. How do you know when they’re up there, vocalizstions?
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Yes, when I walk down our lane to get the mail I can hear them. I’ve been hearing some for about a week, but today was the first time I’ve seen them this year. Within the next week or so, I expect to see them in the fields here.
We live on the western edge of the neck of their hourglass migration pattern and get a good number. Areas to the east of us get hundreds of thousands along with the accompanying racket and guano. 
I missed a good shot of them before the sun was obscured by some clouds – they were brightly lit from below and it was cool to see them white against the sky, easily a thousand feet up.
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When we have a lot of them on the ground, then when they’re flying low over the house maybe only 100 feet up, I can hear them from inside the house, too.
Here’s some from last year:
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Found one of the native aquatic ferns. It’s the Azolla caroliniana/ mosquito fern.
Probably the Red Salamander. Not sure.
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I did not know it was that difficult. We live on the edge of the Manistee National Forest, and I do run into people who lived in cabins with dirt floors and can’t read, on occasion. Many of them are really kind and pleasant, though. Many do have an unusual accent (Michigan has its own accent–my family often says things where we change the vowel and add an “r,” like “go warsh your clothes in the crick.”)
Drugs do keep a sort of subculture , sometimes, here.
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What’s crazy is that there are people out there that are like people around my age that are living in these barely standing houses that was built back before the yellow
Fever outbreak of the late 1800s and it’s still standing because they nailed plywood with metal over it on the outside or ran bricks all inside of it.
Reminds me of stuff like Slab City. When I was backpacking through arizona years ago me and some others came across this little compound like thing out in desert. Almost like Slab City in Cali. Miles out with no power or water. 200-300 people living in the desert in abandoned vehicles, tents and small homes. Handful of these strange places throughout USA.
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They’re huge birds. When they’re standing in fields the adults are almost as tall as I am at 5’10”. And their call really carries, if not for miles, for a mile. It’s incredibly loud. Even though they fly fairly high, I have ducked, when i hard them coming, before I could figure out where the call was coming from.
Really awesome birds I was never aware of in MI, until we moved to the country.
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Just wow.
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My first garden event in over two years came off well last Sunday. My garden is still looking fussed over and this morning the light drew me into the back garden to get these photos.
You can play a flickr album as a full screen slideshow on a computer by clicking the icon that looks like a computer monitor in the he right hand corner above the album cover photo. Wish I knew how to do it on my phone now that my laptop has become too buggy to use.
Here is a photo I took Monday showing the only area in the back garden I didn’t shoot this morning, including my puppy who is 9 months old today. 
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Wow.
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Mark, this is absolutely stunning! Did you design it as well as nurture it? Looking from the Midwest it’s other-worldy, too. March is not a month for the weak ‘round these parts. Our springs are tumultuous, at least they used to be. Snow’s mostly melted, where I live, though. And our plants are completely different.
Thanks for sharing these photos. Your work and care are obvious. Good taste, too.
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Thank you Kendel. But it’s truly the climate first and foremost. My gardening skills would be sorely tested most anywhere else. But we right near the bay we can grow plants that won’t take much heat or cold. I got a first visit from a friend from Petaluma about an hour north of us. She grows some of the unusual plants I do but hers can be older and yet remain a foot or two high with a very limited growing season when the same plants make ten feet easity and never stop growing. Iochromas will drop their flowers if it reaches 90 degrees or stays in the mid 80’s for many days in a row. They can also die to the ground if it gets near freezing. I know how blessed I am by the climate. On the downside some weeds and many pests never rest.
I guess I continue to design it but not in the sense of drawing up and carrying out a plan. I’m from the school of try something and if that doesn’t work move it or try something else. I’m discovering what I like as I go, never having paid any attention to gardens or garden making until about 30 years ago.
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