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Seen on the Street category archive

Chalky Substances 0

chalk drawings of people on street

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Remember Summer 0

Butterfly

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Hunkered Down 2

Geese on hill in cold

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Manxter of All He Surveys 2

Manx cat on cat tower

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Signs of Philly 0

Sign:  Please clean up after your dog.  There is not dog droppings aloud.  Thank you.

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Remember Summer 0

Butterfly on pansy

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Mystery Solved! 0

We have found the whereabouts of Shreddinger’s Cat.

corner of couch used as scratching post.

It’s downstairs even as I type this.

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City Lights 0

Virginia Beach is not a city.

Virginia Beach, as much as I love my home state (you can take a Virginian out of Virginia, but you can’t take Virginia out of Virginian), is a suburb with a thyroid condition.

This is a city.

Philadelphia Twilight

Philadelphia.

A city.

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Compucat 0

Cat sleeping on closed laptop

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Tonight We All Get Naked 0

Notice of Paving with comment that, when paving is complete, "stripping" will begin.

Indeed.

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Scenes from the Weekend 0

Navy C-130s from Oceana were practicing touch-and-goes.

Navy C-130s

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More Complicated Than One Would Think 0

In case you wondered what a hospital bed looks like undressed without any bed clothes (TWUUG meets at a local hospital).

Bare hospital bed

Frankly, that’s about the closest I want to get to one.

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Remember Summer 4

Some more pictures from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

bluebird at bird house

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I Know Just What the Internet Needs (Updated) 2

The answer lurks below the fold.

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The Secesh 0

Decal on pickup:  top half American flag, bottom half, Confederate battle ensignI don’t know what this is supposed to mean.

But, whatever it is, it can’t be good.

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A Bug in the System 0

Bug


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Tuesday’s Blue Moon 0

"Blue Moon" 2013-08-20


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More about blue moons.

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Butterfly on Deck 0

I think it’s a Two-Tailed Swallowtail, but it might be an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

Swallowtail butterfly

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Hitchhiker 4

This cicada green fruit beetle* landed on the wiper arm at a stop light, snuggled down between the wiper arm and the wiper, and hitched a two-mile ride.

Cicada on windshield wiper arm.

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*See the comments.

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Stormy Weather 2

A squall line near my brother’s place in Virginia’s Northern Neck:

Squall

These days, I believe that squall lines are called “derechos,” which is a foreign-sounding word and therefore ever so much more frightening and important.

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