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Rancher, artist, and poet Sean Sexton reads his poem, “Your Life, Your Death”, set to imagery found in and around his art studio at his family’s Treasure Hammock Ranch in Indian River County, Florida. The poem can be found in his first book of poetry entitled “Blood Writing”.
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Blood Writing, cattle ranching, dog, Florida Cattle Ranch, poem, poetry, Sam, Sean Sexton, Treasure Hammock Ranch, Video
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Pepper on the trail by the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: dog, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, FMEL, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pepper, trail
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Walking the dog.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: dog
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Sam & I enjoyed an early morning hike at St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: dog, hike, Sam, St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park
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A Halloween mixup with a rare look over Uncle Martin’s shoulder as he pilots his spaceship with Sam in the cockpit viewer giving him advice from the future – as if a Martian needs to be given advice! My Favorite Martian ran on CBS from 1963 to 1966 featuring the adventures of a congenial Martian anthropologist, played by Ray Walson, stranded on Earth after his spaceship crashes leaving him to get by as best he can with his new found […]
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Bill Bixby, CBS, collage, dog, Halloween, Mars, Martian, My Favorite Martian, Ray Walston, Sam, Tim O’Hara, Uncle Martin
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Remembering a January 2014 visit to ORCA with Sam to see the bees. At the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area today where I shot more bees on privet. And Sam enjoyed the warm Sun in the cool, winter air.
Categories: Nature • Tags: bees, dog, Flashback Friday, Florida, Indian River County, macro photography, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, privet, Vero Beach
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Flashback Friday: A look back at when I was in the midst of photographing the crab program. This week’s Supermoon has spurred the annual migration of Blue Land Crabs from their burrows inland to release their eggs into the ocean. According to the University of Florida’s IFAS Extension: “Blue land crabs reach sexual maturity in approximately 4 years. Peak reproductive activity occurs during full moons in summer. After mating, an adult female lays her eggs but carries the egg mass […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: beach, Blue Land Crabs, Cardisoma guanhumi, dog, Flashback Friday, Full Moon, IFAS Extension, migration, Pepper, Sam, Supermoon, University of Florida
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Revisiting a walk with Sam the dog out at Treasure Hammock Ranch for National Dog Day. I finally make it out to Treasure Hammock Ranch for a walk with Susan Boyd and, of course, what had been a sunny day turns cloudy with rain moving in. Still, though it was fairly dark and cloudy, there were still some good bird pictures to be teased out of the gloom. Here is a sampling. . . . Sean Sexton and Dino wait […]
Categories: Nature • Tags: American Kestrel, Calves, cattle, Cows, dog, Eastern Meadowlark, Indian River County, Loggerhead Shrike, Love Bugs, Mike Sexton, National Dog Day, radish, Sandhill Crane, Sean Sexton, Susan Boyd, Treasure Hammock Ranch, turnip, Vero Beach, wildlife photography
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A dog, or horse, trained to work with cattle when they are being moved can be worth more than an inexperienced field hand trying to do the same job. Cattle crossing the road at Treasure Hammock Ranch. From the Florida Cattle Ranch project.
Categories: Dog's Tail • Tags: cattle, dog, ranch, Treasure Hammock Ranch
