I came across this post by Elizabeth Byrne in Arlington, Virginia. I thought the photo was amazingly well balanced, and showed a sort of serendipity of the moment, with the perspective and colors of the animals in sequence from light to dark. All three have their heads down, and are equally w
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04/27/2011
There comes a certain time in your life when you have been renting for a long time that you want to know how to stop renting and buy your own home. You are not alone. There are people that can help you achieve that goal. Uusually right there in your own community. The best place to start is to
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04/26/2011
Easter so often marks the beginning of spring, and new things for the year, more so than any other holiday. I hope eveyone has a wonderful Easter, with good weather, and a lot of fun times with family. I hope you will enjoy my selection of flower photos to celebrate the occasion. I tried to co
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04/24/2011
The Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan has an annual exhibit featuring butterflies from Asia, Africa and South America. I recently went there on an excursion with my wife for an afternoon to see the butterfly atrium at the gardens. Along with taking photos, whi
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04/21/2011
When you visit the Fredrick Meijer Garden and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and you want to make your way into the butterfly exhibit, they route you along a path that takes you through the cactus exhibit first. Here they have a wonderful collection of cactus, mostly from the Southwest
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04/19/2011
It has been a few years since I visited the butterfly exhibit at the Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I went there this past Sunday with my wife, and we spent several hours there. The exhibit runs from March 1st through April 30th, and the butterfly exhibit
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04/19/2011
I driving around the rutal areas and seeing old barns. They are such the reminder of yesteryear. I think about what the barn looked like in its prime, before it went through 50 plus winters, and blistering summers. What were the people like that built it originally, and how did it somehow surv
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04/15/2011
When you are buying a foreclosure in Michigan, there can be some differences that people familiar with previous closings where they bought a home from an individual seller will find. For one, there are some circumstances where you may not recieve your key at the closing table, even though you si
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04/09/2011
Yesterday I had to make a trip to Union City and then onto Coldwater, Michigan. Most of the travel time is through rural areas. I stopped at one point when I saw this field of sheep, and took a few photos. They looked a little bored, and somewhat ragged, but I thought they made for a good blog
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04/07/2011
I was showing some houses to some friends of mine last week that were looking for an investment property. One of the men brought his daughter along, who proudly introduced me to her friend 'Free Willy' the whale. Willy of course accompanied her throughout the showing, and at one point when her
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04/06/2011