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• Sometimes You Need to Get Close

  
  Serious Amateur Photography — Authority: 125
  In general, landscape photographers will use a wide angle lens to capture those wide open vistas. Sometimes you need to get close however and that’s where today’s wide-angle zoom lenses like Canon’s EF 24-105mm really comes in handy. I took this shot on a hazy evening about 30 minutes before the sun went down, ...
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• Never Put Your Camera Away!

  
  Serious Amateur Photography — Authority: 125
  Like baseball, success in photography is all about statistics. In baseball, the more times you’re at bat, the better your average usually is. One simple rule for increasing your “stats” (percent keepers) in photography is to never put your camera away until you get “home”. (OK, enough with the baseball ...
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• Missing Ocean Wood? Consider these

  
  Travels with Hilary — Authority: 126
  Now none of these can replace Ocean Wood , Mike Brunton’s campground on the the Schoodic Peninsula that closed after last summer. But, if you’re looking for a place to pitch your tent or park your pop-up, pick-up or small RV on the coast, a campground with few frills but big natural assets, consider these: • ...
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• Arizona Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (State Park System)

  
  Derek Neighbors — Authority: 121
  Arizona is in a fiscal melt down .  They need to balance the budget.  The state is going to have to get creative to do so without slashing everything to the bone.  In a move that I just can’t seem to understand, they appear to want to take all the money from the State Park System (which isn’t even funded ...
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• Redwood Forest Vacation Offers Various Activities And New Events

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  Over the years, the Redwoods of Northern California have become known as an attractive spot for individuals and families interested in an affordable and lively forest vacation. With a history that reigns back to Californias gold rush period, the Redwoods extend from Big Sur to the Oregon Border, near Fortuna, and ...
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• Westbrook and Weston: The Aftermath of a Concussion

  
  The Starting Five — Authority: 428
  I returned from work this morning and had the great pleasure of having both my sons in the same house at the same time. The things we take for granted. You send these stories and I will write them. This is what it’s all about. I check my email boxes around the clock to see if there is anything business related ...
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• Weekend Outdoor Reads for December 25th

  
  CampingBlogger — Authority: 122
  M erry Christmas, everyone! Weekend Outdoor Reads is a list of five stories, news items, or photos that I found particularly interesting during the week. I like to share these with my readers, every Friday, in order to provide a little browsing pleasure to carry you through the weekend. Here are the things that caught ...
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• Grant’s Getaways: Lewis & Clark Slept Here

  
  The Travel Oregon Blog — Authority: 119
  If your family yearns for a holiday getaway that teaches unique Oregon history, Grant McOmie found a perfect fit for this time of year. This week’s Grant’s Getaway puts you face to face with a winter survival story that’s two hundred years old when a group of explorers found themselves stranded in Oregon. ...
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• Invictus: Race harmony and rugby

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Conflicts are easy to begin and much harder to patch up. Deep in the human psyche, we divide the social landscape into us and them - in-groups and out-groups. Early social psychologists were preoccupied by this problem. Their interest was piqued by the holocaust to which many had lost family members. Social division ...
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• Autumn Shoreline

  
  Serious Amateur Photography — Authority: 125
  Here’s another image taken at Buescher State Park in Smithville, Texas right before we lost all our fall color to the wind and the rain. Enjoy the colors of autumn once again. Autumn Shoreline – Buescher State Park, Texas Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II ...
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• Coyotes in Cedar Hill State Park, Cedar Hill Texas

  
  Lone Star Travelers Blog — Authority: 117
  We spotted a coyote right off the road on the north side of Cedar Hill State Park at about 11AM on Sunday, December 20th, 2009.  As we slowed and then stopped our truck to observe him, he just became still at the edge of the underbrush and stared back.  He was a good size and healthy looking.  Come out for a drive ...
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• Snowshoe Making Classes at Ludington State Park

  
  Get Off The Couch News — Authority: 119
  if you like this article, click the Blip chiclet! a news release of Michigan DNR The Department of Natural Resources has added three snowshoe-making classes at Ludington State Park, located at 8800 W. M-116 in Ludington, as part of its winter season schedule: Sunday, Jan. 10, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, ...
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• La Gaviota

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 129
  The men of explorer Gaspar de Portolà ’s expedition named the place La Gaviota, Spanish for seagull , in 1769 . The official diarist of the expedition, Father Juan Crespí , called the coastline San Luis, in honor of the King of France. Later, during the Mexican-American War , when General John C. Frémont ...
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• Pound Bend Walking Track to Kangaroo Paddock

  
  BOB'S AUSTRALIAN BUSHWALKING JOURNAL — Authority: 120
  On Monday afternoon December 21, 2009, I went over to the Warrandyte State Park, 15 km from the Melbourne CBD. I left the car at the Pound Bend picnic ground and followed the Pound Bend Walking Track alongside the Yarra, to the Kangaroo Paddock. The Paddock is actually in a large area of cleared land managed by ...
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• Advance Reservations at State Parks for 2010

  
  CampingBlogger — Authority: 122
  H ave you reserved your favorite campsites for the coming year? Many state parks fill up quickly, so it is important to plan ahead, if you intend to camp at one of your parks in 2010. States have different policies regarding advance reservations of campsites, so use the following list to see when the reservation ...
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• Experience Winter Wonders in Door County, Wisconsin

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 432
    A view of snow covered dunes at Whitefish Dunes State Park  If you long for the winter wonders pictured on holiday cards, head to Door County, Wisconsin where snow and fun abound.   I enjoyed an invigorating press trip to  Door County’s  snow-coveredshores, where I witnessed the peninsula’s ...
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• Survived The Seashore Nature Trail 50K

  
  Run Bulldog Run — Authority: 106
  Well, it wasn’t pretty, but I managed to survive the inaugural Seashore Nature Trail 50K and just about hold on for a new 50K PR. The weather conditions weren’t ideal and made for a real slog in the rain-soaked Cape Henry Trail at First Landing State Park. My only real goals heading into the race were (a) to ...
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• Tropical Hammock - Hugh Taylor Birch State Park - Ft. Lauderdale FL

  
  All the Dirt on Gardening — Authority: 124
  We had an opportunity to visit a coastal tropical hammock in Ft. Lauderdale Florida this month. The location is a donated strip of land called Hugh Taylor Birch State Park - heres a link with information about visiting. Tropical hardwood hammocks, or closed hardwood canopies, are found throughout the southern ...
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• The beach makes me happy

  
  Trish Milburn & Tricia Mills — Authority: 111
  The hubby finally got some time off from work, so we decided to take a spur-of-the-moment trip the beach — aka Place That Is Warmer Than At Home. So, yesterday afternoon, after he was done with band practice and I got home from my local RWA chapter holiday party, we loaded up the Versa and headed south through a ...
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• Sandy Point in the Snow

  
  Nervous Birds — Authority: 99
  After the twenty odd inches of frozen precipitation that Maryland received this weekend, Chris Murray and I decided to venture out late this afternoon for some local snow-filled birding. Sandy Point seemed like a safe bet. With almost all available field and forest covered with the white stuff, I figured that ...
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