Category Archives: Nature
Look like a Wild Turkey
I want to look like a turkey. Don’t misread me. I want to look like one, not look like a turkey. The eyesight of wild turkeys is superior to every other inhabitant of eastern forests with the exception of raptors … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, Nature
Tagged artists and painters, Boy Scouts, cross eyes, First Avenue, Look Wide, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, naturalist, optical brighteners, Rembrandt, strabismus, Wild turkey
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A Root to Cure Evils (Ginseng)
A police informant reported a horde of vegetable roots drying in the sun outside a home in Randolph County, WV. This is not the kind of news that makes headlines or pricks up ears, but to our friend, a law … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Nature
Tagged Appalachian Outlaws, Doctrine of Signatures, Panax quinquefolius, Paracelsus, Randolph County, saponins, Schinseng, WV, WV DNR
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Who’s seen a Thylacine?
Only Aussies born more than 90 years ago can make a plausible claim to have seen a living thylacine: according to official records, the last of them died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. And, yet, thylacines still live! Few “extinct” … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Environment, Nature
Tagged Bigfoot, Irian Jaya, Loch Ness Monster, Merauke, Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, West Papua
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National Dog Day
“Every dog has its day” was coined before Shakespeare, but centuries passed until dogs were given their Day. Not until 2004, and a dozen years after National Corndog Day, were they given a deserved honor, and National Dog Day came … Continue reading
Posted in Animalia, Nature
Tagged canine science, Cruft's Dog Show, Edwin Landseer, Lady Isabella Wentworth, Lord Byron, National Dog Day, Westminister Kennel Club Dog Show
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 