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Seen on the Street category archive

Beached 5

Yesterday, we went to the beachfront to see the sand sculptures for the annual Neptune Festival. Here are some miscellaneous shots; I’ll be posting some shots of the sculptures throughout the week:

Water Jetpack

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Sleeping All Day Is Exhausting 0

Cat Yawning Wide

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Gardens by the Sea 0

Update: Picture fixed.

Sunday, we went to the Botanical Gardens, primarily to see the Butterfly House. Unfortunately, it was a cool, gray day and, as the volunteer explained to us, too cool for the butterflies to be active. Nevertheless, we still saw some neat stuff.

Passion Flower

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Remember Summer 0

Thunderhead

See you tomorrow.

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Bloggus Interruptus 2

When you log into a website, the site drops a cookie in your browser cache identifying you as logged in.

Somehow, this beast managed to set my browser not to accept cookies, so I could not log in.

Cat sleeping on keyboard

I have set my screensaver to lock the screen when it senses “cat.”

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Spider 0

My brother sent me this from Virginia’s Northern Neck.

We used to get these down on the farm.

garden spider

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Waning Summer 0

Butterfly

Butterfly

It’s an orange-hued sulfur butterfly.

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Felix Robertus 0

Bobbed-tailed cat

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Think Summer 0

Butterfly fluttering by

Butterfly on Impatiens

Butterfly on Impatiens

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Light Bloggery 0

Break time.

Rose in bloom

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I Wondered What That Thumping Sound Was 0

cat in dryer

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Seen on the Street 0

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“You Little Manx” 2

69 Manx conversion

69 Manx conversion

69 Manx conversion

More about Manx dunebuggy conversions here.

For comparison, here is an unconverted manx:

Manx

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Scene on the Philly Streets 0

Ectoplasm in the hotel elevator*:

A sloop on auxiliary power passes under the Ben Franklin Bridge:

Sloop under Ben Franklin Bridge

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Random Shots from the Road 0

Some pictures from the road to Philadelphia.

At the renovated Pa. Welcome Center, I-95 N., just before I hit the seven-mile backup from the accident at the Blue Route:

Jeep as tourism exhibit

Jeep as tourism exhibit

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And Now for Some Cheesecake (Updated) 0

Layered wedding cake made of wheels of cheese

This was in the window of a coffee shop that First Daughter took me to on Third Street in Philly.

Addendum:

It was here.

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Obama Derangement Syndrome 1

Someone’s been watching too much Fox News.

Pickup truck strewm with wingut lies about President Obama

Click for a larger image.

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Seen on the Street 1

OBAAMA

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Nature Red in Tooth and Jaw 0

Japanese Beetle on Impatiens

See the original (scaled to 500 pixels wide) below the fold.

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Sign of the Times 0

I should report this, but I decided not to go there.

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