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• Builders’ bags on the beach

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
    On a single walk along the beach on 28th October 2009 I noticed 16 big polypropylene builders’ bags in various states of burial and disintegration. Here is the photographic evidence for this relatively new plastic flotsam phenomenon. Each white bag measures about a metre cubed. They sometimes have ...
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• Identity Box

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A mailbox with a clear statement of identity at Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula ~ Mailbox Monday #32 ~ A place in the street Strong signed and sealed belonging Strong identity ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• Upper Peninsula Upventure: Escanaba

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 580
  An important shipping point for lumber and iron ore, Escanaba is the Upper Peninsulas third largest city. Its on the Lake Michigan shore, on the so-called "Banana Belt," the part of the U.P. which is, compared to the rest of the peninsula, relatively warm. As you can see in the mural, Escanaba was founded in 1863. ...
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• White Rose Beauty

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ The beauty of a white rose is eternal ~ Macro Monday meme ~ Layered leaves of white Pages scented with legends Natures magic book ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Wall Found at Canada’s Oldest English Settlement

  
  Twelve Mile Circle — Authority: 121
  The National Post reported recently on a "Wall unearthed from Canada’s oldest British settlement." This was the Cupids Colony in Newfoundland, settled on the Avalon Peninsula along the shores of Conception Bay. Thirty nine settlers landed here in 1610 under the direction of John Guy, a Bristol merchant. An ...
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• Upper Peninsula Upventure: Moose quilt

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 580
  Now, the series--which will conclude next week--takes an artistic turn. During my second night on Michigans Upper Peninsula, I stayed in the White House Hotel in Mohawk. Yes, this is another Keweenaw U.P. post. The owners are a married couple, a woman from Seattle and her English husband. True to his English roots, ...
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• Magical Rural Moment

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Magical rural scene at The Briars, Mount Martha, Mornington Peninsula ~ SOOC Sunday meme ~ Seasonal faces Natures parade of beauty Some worlds are changeless ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• Cape San Blas Real Estate Week in Review - Nov. 21-27, 2009

  
  Cape San Blas Real Estate Blog — Authority: 114
  Black Friday may have been the national official launch of the holiday shopping season but buyers shopping for coastal real estate snapped up bargains all week long as we had yet another banner week, with three closings and five new contracts. Those Thanksgiving shoppers gobbled up a nice chunk of our inventory and ...
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• Rural Outdoor Museum

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A corner of The Briars property at Mount Martha, Mornington Peninsula ~ Scenic Sunday #72 ~ Echoes of old days Fragments of living slowly Living museum ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• In the shadow of a feather...

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Feather (kookaburra?) on my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula ~ Shadow Shot Sunday #80 ~ Fragmented shadow Fragile trail of living flight Light as a feather ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• Fish bones & fishing net at Rhossili

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  These intricate and delicate  structures are vertebrae from a fish. They seem both complex and beautiful. They are an example of the interesting and amazing things you can find washed up on strandlines if you only take a closer look. These backbones were still articulated and joined to the head (illustrated in the ...
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• Sea Lions and Gulls, Sunset – Point Lobos

  
  G Dan Mitchell Photography — Authority: 425
  Sea Lions and Gulls, Sunset – Point Lobos. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. November 22, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Sea lions and gulls on offshore rocks at sunset in heavy surf – Point Lobos State Reserve, California. As I photographed this group of offshore rocks in ...
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• Of hunting carols, Turdy Point Bucks and the cultural currency of the Upper Midwest

  
  A Talent for Idleness — Authority: 110
  I have never been a deer hunter. As a matter of fact, I’ve never so much as held a gun. That made me quite the anomaly growing up in my neck of Western Wisconsin. In that particular nook of the Upper Midwest, deer season is a half-step removed from being a religious holiday. Maybe not even that – I know plenty of ...
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• Derisionist History

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 729
  Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations By Avi Shlaim (Verso, 392 pp., $34.95) Avi Shlaim burst upon the scene of Middle Eastern history in 1988, with the publication of Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine . Before that, as a ...
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• Beachcombings (2)

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 126
  Found objects from the Gower coastline. The tiny Teddy Bear with his red hat was washed up on Rhossili beach – see the picture below for how he looked when I found him. He now lives comfortably dry in the bowl shaped remains of a metal fishing float that I picked up on Whiteford Sands – “La Coquille” is ...
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• Common Symbols of Outdoor Technology

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A gathering of technologies in a Rosebud carpark, Mornington Peninsula. These are familiar technologies in the shopping experience. ~ PhotoHunt #189 ~ Technology ~ Shiny metallics Cold symbols of our progress Processed contraptions ~ Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A familiar piece of ...
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• Small Reflections

  
  Gemma's ~ "Greyscale Territory" ~ Poetic Songlines — Authority: 132
  Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Heaving seas at Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula ~ Weekend Reflections #10 ~ Unsettled waters Fallen castles in the sands Footprints fade in time ~ When business rules When a week seems a lifetime Keep reflections small ~ Gemma Wiseman
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• Where the World Melts Away

  
  Travel Tips — Authority: 135
  If you were to go to the four corner points of America, you could not find four more different places from one another. From the coast of Maine to the tip of California to the rocky shores of Washington State…
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