Tag: nature preserve
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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January 27, 2008 06:57 PM EST --
Today I tackled one of the hikes I found in the Weekend Walks in Rhode Island book I found at Borders on Friday. I convinced my friend Virginia (a fellow ousted exile from Home Depot) to come along. . . .
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October 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
My day off and I head right for my old stomping grounds to shake off the stress of the week. Here are some of the pictures I took on my walk.
In Ballard Park the main path in the northern part of the . . .
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January 28, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
We had a nor'easter blow through overnight that left a little snow - an inch or two. I had stuff to do at the computer today, but I decided to take a quick run down to Ballard Park to look at what . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I live in Newport, RI, and there's an area here that has become my spiritual home. It's where I go to recharge at least once a week, where I lose myself in nature, and where I often take my best . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Miracle of miracles, another Sunday off! It was a chilly and overcast day, and a dead calm one, too. I went walking, and here are the results.
Ballard Park
The birds were avoiding me in the . . .
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February 23, 2008 05:38 PM EST --
We had some snow/sleet/freezing rain yesterday, so today I went down to my spiritual home to see what effect was achieved by Mama Gaiea's brush. Unfortunately a lot of people and their dogs had been . . .
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October 26, 2007 04:26 PM EDT --
Today started out sunny and quickly clouded over. Not that I was upset about that - I much prefer to take pictures in more diffuse light than in bright sunlight. In any case, here are the shots that worked . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
The leaves have fallen from the trees, the temperatures have dropped, even the quality of daylight has changed. Winter is arriving, affecting the places I love best - Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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January 08, 2008 07:15 PM EST --
I was all set to do laundry today until I heard the weather forecast - mostly sunny and warm, with the high temps approaching 60. so naturally I heard the call of the wild and decided the laundry could . . .
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October 14, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
Last night was the annual Pumpkin Tour in Ballard Park, when you "rent" space in the park to put a carved pumpkin. Then at sunset they light the candles in all the pumpkins. It's a magnificent . . .
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March 09, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
Today was gorgeous - sunny and relatively warm (meaning in the 40s). There was a bit of a breeze, so the birds were laying low. Mostly I concentrated on trees and such as I wandered along the trails. . . .
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July 06, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
I went on my usual Sunday hike down in Ballard Park and around Gooseneck Cove today. The meadow on the floor of the old quarry in Ballard Park is really alive right now - wildflowers and bugs of all kinds . . .
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October 07, 2008 06:26 PM EDT --
Walking the trails in Ballard Park, camera set to macro, this poem emerged.
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October 30, 2009 11:57 PM EDT --
I looked at my morning email today and found the latest Friends of Ballard Park newsletter, and what do I learn but that today - October 30 - is Ballard Park's birthday. On October 30, 1990 . . .
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October 07, 2007 05:39 PM EDT --
Today's hike had no real direction or purpose; I ended up all over the place. I headed down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck cove first, but there wasn't much activity or anything different from what . . .
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May 25, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
My usual Sunday jaunt down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. The foliage is now full and there's lots of shade. There was a nice cooling breeze out of the NW but it was still a warm day.
In . . .
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December 07, 2008 03:47 PM EST --
Today we got the first snow of the season; not much, and so wet it might almost have been rain, but it still stuck to grass and trees. So I went down to Ballard Park to take a look.
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January 25, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
It started out as several small ice rivulets and an icicle or two where seeping groundwater, moving down the rock seeking a lower level, froze in the falling temperatures. Then it snowed, a heavy wet . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
Walking through Ballard Park today, I noticed groupings of tree trunks. So, being who I am, I made a photo shoot of them. Back home and doing the processing, I found they worked best in black and white. . . .
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February 10, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
Our snow has mostly melted away, and I miss it already! So this is to satisfy my snow jones.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in . . .
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