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Spring Flowers

Color is returning to the world, or at least to our backyard. As soon as the semester ends, I will enjoy it. I may be able to write more then, too.

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Flint River Bridge_April 11_06

I took an exercise break this afternoon. I needed it after a long spell of grading student papers. It was around 4:00 PM, and the river trail was not too heavily populated yet. The bridge was my turn around point today. Once I work into mid-season form, I will walk another few […]

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April Evening
So, following up on my previous entry, I could obsessively blog about my walks along the Flint River, with daily photos. I could tie it in with trying to lose weight and get in shape: “Flint River Fitness Walks.” Two obsessions in one blog. It can’t miss.
Of course, on cold and wet days, such […]

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US cook wins blogging book prize (BBC News)
Earlier this week, a cooking blog turned into a cooking book won the first literary prize (the “Blooker”) for such transformations. Julie Powell blogged about her efforts to cook all of the recipes in a 1961 book on French cooking by Julie Child. The book version of […]

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Lighthouse Trail
This photo was taken during our anniversay trip to Ludington, MI, last fall. To me, the visual argument is similar to that of the Mackinaw Bridge photo I posted yesterday. Here you have a lighthouse tower poking up above the sand dunes in the distance, a vast empty sky, and a lone human figure […]

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