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June 28   Two photos of a silver-spotted skipper butterfly.   A literary agent suggested that 90,000 would be a better max length for my fantasy novel, so I cut 16,000 words, and now I have two versions of the same novel. Should I mention both in a future query letter? 21   Today features bald eagles: A page from the paddle at BESP on June 19 and some further eagle photos on my birding pages.   I wonder how the Iranian election will be resolved? It's certainly a rare demonstration of people power - but will it last? 14   Two more for my birding series: a red-shouldered hawk and red-winged blackbird. Soft but striking: a red-spotted purple butterfly.   I'm still behind on what I'd like to accomplish. Right now I'm preparing a full synopsis of my recently completed fantasy novel. Also, last week's paddle across the lake to visit the eagle family at BESP was canceled because of rain, but it has been rescheduled for next week. 7   Soft but striking: a red-spotted purple butterfly.   A mute swan stopped at the Toftrees Pond for several days in May.   I almost got it together to put up a page on the story reading (from last February), but I fell a little behind on the freelancing this week. Perhaps next week? Of course, the next paddle to visit the bald eagles at BESP will be a distraction (that is, a good distraction). May 31   The highlight of yesterday was an evening paddle across the lake in Bald Eagle State Park to visit the bald eagle family.   My story "Mr. Starman" has been accepted for publication in the anthology Cheer Up, Universe. Whooppee! 24   There are some bird families for which although I've good photos, I never seem to get around to posting them. Today I decided to catch up on sandpipers, and so here are least sandpiper and spotted sandpiper photos.   My current fantasy story is halfway through Critters, and as a consequence of remarks, the rewrite (when I have time off from freelancing) may make it longer than I had originally intended. 17   Photos of the eastern kingbird perching and in flight   I finished my second story (a fantasy), and now it's time to concentrate on freelancing. 10   Three photos of hooded mergansers   Book production freelancing has finally started in a large way. I hope to finish one or two stories before concentrating on the freelancing. Actually, one is kind of finished (and being discussed on Critters). The second is more questionable, but I hope to get through the first draft. 4   I decided to transfer the SFWA membership logo to the bottom of this page, rather than my sparse opening page. Somehow, that makes more sense to me. 3   Spring blossoms are a pleasure, and here are two "soft" magnolia blossom photos.   New information on the banded snow geese I had photographed in March. April 22   A couple of weeks ago, Robyn Graboski asked whether I'd like to photograph the Wild About Animals exhibition in the Penn State Ag Arena. Of course I said yes (good karma comes from helping a wildlife rehabiliator). Then she mentioned a little video would be good too. And so my old digit-8 camcorder went to work. As a result, I have over 60 photos and 5 video clips spread across 15 pages from the April 11 event. 19   Centre County PAWS, in conjunction with Alpha Kappa Psi, held its first Walk-A-Thon on April 18, 2009, and I've included a brief photojournal of the event. 9   The next weekend will be busy, so I thought to put up a page today, featuring two alternatives about an encounter between a gopher snake, a petroglyph of a snake, and me: the video (2.2 megs) or the stills   I have finished revising my present fantasy novel, and it's ready to go out into the world. Now comes the hard part, because anyone can write a novel. But market it . . . ? That's work. 5   Snow goose photos with a difference: individuals instead of group scenes Mar. 29   Photographs of a tundra swan and two snow geese wearing bands 22   Here's a slight change of pace from snow geese, all because Sue and I met a Redhead. 15   More snow geese! This time it's a sequence of three photos of the swarming that mirror the action of my goosestorm video clip. 14   On March 12, a hacker rewrote the html files to my site with useless code. Today I noticed and uploaded all my files again, so everything should be back to normal. I apologize about the inconvenience for the past two days, and I hope the hacker finds a more fulfilling life doing something else. 8   Two videos from last Sunday's trip to Middle Creek: the flyby and the goosestorm. They're large files (3.8 and 15.3 megs, respectively), but they show goose action at its best. The goosestorm has multiple swarms starring a goodly number of the over 80,000 snow geese at Middle Creek that day. 2   On Wednesday and Sunday I went to Middle Creek for the snow geese, and it was wonderful. Here's the first of what will be more pages on snow geese. It's a larger image (over 200K) than I'd typically choose, but it's necessary to capture the intensity of a snow goose swarm. Feb. 23   In honor of winter (or what's left of it), here are two icicle photos: columns and bridge 17   Last Thursday was the reading of my story and three others from the Town & Gown fiction issue, and it was glorious! All four actors did brilliant jobs and brought an incredible amount of life into each story. The actor who read mine - Charles Dumas - has an account of the event on his blog at the Centre Daily Times.     (Writing success doesn't mean that my photos stop.) An evening guest: an opossum

Artwork

Cartoons: The alien . . . Bushwacks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Clinton censured and his dress stain Feline and revolutionary Gateway to heaven Hillary Clinton, voting for Hillary, and her Cookoff Luck My Newtbook (many of 'em) $500 billion bailout Florida elections Remember! Saddam Hussein Award for Democracy The stain A thoughtful pair Westward, a tour thru the U.S. Zorro discovers Viagra Paintings (computer & traditional): Birthday landscapes Bluebird of happiness Castlerigg Stone Circle Copying portraits A Fantasy Some Flowers Knife and paper towel Sue portraits Swans Two Lake District watercolors Wet landscapes Pen & inks: Driven graphics Frentic graphics Two pleasant and two unpleasant drawings skeletal humor vole and wave Wooden personality   3D artwork & videos: Allosaur skull Fantasy pipes (several pages) A Viking ship (with AVI) and some historical info Amundsen's ship Gjøa, Videos (with links by browser) Streaming video The Red Spot

Felines

Cloudberry: As an artist Defining moment First monitor For a few inches more Her new tail [George] Mouse scratching post Not mom On a roll Presence with presents Standing Treats George (the kitten): Coming of age Lucy: Reflections Lucy and Mom Bear Muffin: Escort service The Persian in the sun Saying hello Moonshadow (Street urchin):    In the crater

Free graphics

Bar none (lines/rules) Flash clip art: Color-changing, 3d bars Geometric tiles (vivid) Real textures from Dino National Monument and the Petrified Forest

Javascript & Flash
Note: Net 3+ or IE 3+ for these.
(All my frames--if used--are anguish-free: you leave, they go.)

Game index List and news of all the games at Lookoutnow. Javascripts: Color bars (set the options for a dynamic color bar). About. Or download a javascript color bar for your pages. Contents (A random approach to my pages). About Mancala (my online game of stones). Rules Practical chess endgames (Net 3+ or IE 4+). About Tic-tac-toe (with luck from blessed to bad karma) Flash 5 (no frames) Chicken Little: Save the Earth from alien invaders (arcade) Mancala, v3.6 with 48 animated stones or download the shareware version Online: MiniGOLF (original) or 18 Holes Plus Download MiniGOLF or 36 Holes Plus Paper Ships, journalism ain't yellow, or download the shareware version Shell game

Lands of Woz

Books by Robert Woznicki, world traveler and historian

Pipes & tobacco

Ben Wades and more Paul Bonaquisti Tim Fuller Mark Tinsky My own design Le Nuvole Obtaining Condor Odds and ends (pipes) Pipe smoking and links 3D pipe cutaway Tobacco reviews

Places

Bryce Canyon: sunset and lightning, Fairyland castle, Along the rim to Fairyland Point, By moonlight, Trees, Bryce Point, western chipmunk, golden mantled ground squirrel, Steller's jay Kodachrome Basin: Lizards, Bees Petrified Forest National Park Zion National Park, Zion mule deer Petroglyphs Remembering the Red Fleet dinosaur trackway Capitol Reef National Park: Hickman Natural Bridge and trail Puzzle: anomaly or dino track? Three lizards Yellow-bellied marmot Goblin Valley State Park Dinosaur National Monument: The Quarry Juniper + personality Textures of silence Grasmere (Cumbria, England): Light moods Mountain sheep Misty walks one and two My first fellwalk A stroll to Calf Crag Herdwick video or still Sunrise 20mm views by High Raise Twilight on Silver How Walking in weather Iceland: A horse ride Snorri's quotable line A stroll thru Akureyri The 10-hour tour Whooping swans and love Coopers Pond (State College, Pennsylvania) At the bird feeder: A list of my PA bird photos Butterflies: A list of my PA butterfly photos Bronty the groundhog; Baby groundhog and leaf Squirrels: Eastern chipmunks at work and play; Captain AC Chipmunk; Arboreal chipmunk; Gray squirrels, Gone with the Corn, Gray stretch, Tiny Scoiattolo Jr.; Red squirrels; Fox squirrels The night visitor: a raccoon White-tailed fawns; white-tailed deer and the leaf Eastern cottontail and the bunny hop Flowers: Two Flower macros Hibiscus flowers Dreamy roses of Sharon Touch-me-not and dewdrops American toad Blue water bowl Two dragonfly and a tiny red dragonfly Fireworks 2005 and 2006 Foggy landscapes Frogs: bullfrogs, spring peepers, and wood frogs Giant ice sculptures A green bee Hawks: Fall 2005 hawk watch; Red-tailed hawk portraits and Says hey; Jo Hayes Vista, fall 2008 Hummingbird moth Ice landscapes by moonlight Ice X ten: forest icicles Icicles: Simple and complex or Dreamy and plane Jacks Mountain Hawkwatch, spring 2008 Knock knock: A red-bellied woodpecker wakes up a flying squirrel Starlings mobbing a Cooper's hawk: patterns Tundra swan patterns Turtles: eastern painted turtle, snapping turtle At Tussey Mountain: A red-tailed hawk Turkey vultures and golden eagles at Tussey Mountain Tussey spring 2006 hawk watch Bald Eagle State Park, Pennsylvania Bald eagle flight, Eagle watch 1, eagle watch 2, (the best) Eagle watch 3 Monarch butterfly roundup Wild Resource Festival Immature bald eagle (2007) Long Island Autumn flower macros Bayard Cutting Arboretum & young bunny Birds along the north fork Callery pear Canadian gosling 75 days with a Canadian goose family Catkin to leaf: 6 Aspen macros and Aspen overview Explosive heart of a daisy Firry snowman Flower to leaf: 5 Norway maple macros Fowler's toad & 2 macros Golden Eyes: a garter snake Hawk 2001: ice storm Pseudo ladybug Sunset . . . with flare Saddle Rock (Long Island) Backlit flowers Black-eyed Susans and punk bee Blue jay and cardinal A blue jay story Bunny hop Colorful damsels Extreme ladybugs & Ladybug antics Geodesic dandelion seeds Indian blanket Iris yellow flag Light through dewdrop Mallard family values Merlin: a pretty falcon Nightshade and other macros Nuthatch and kinglet Patience on the balcony Pinecone babies pussy willow catkins in bloom and growth cycle of female catkins on a white birch Rhododendrons Rose & bee, Minuscule bee Snowstorm (night), 2003 Spring 2002 flower macros Spring 2003: first pussy willow catkins and first crocuses Tiger swallowtail Water lilies 1 and 2 Web dewdrops Wetland in winter Wild violets

An undefined miscellany

Clip art? Bobbie Peachey! An alien lifeform . . . or a hibiscus? Butterfly macros (Red admiral!) Everyone knows . . . The fisheye and the corkscrew willow Flower macros Forsythias ice macros Idle remarks (thoughts after 3 a.m.) Jan Martin, Best Friends, and Tylertown Jim Baen, 1943-2006 2003 lunar eclipse and a big moon photo Northern Lights Peeking dove and "donut" bokeh Remembering whiteout spring '98 (via photos) Spring 2001: dew drops Spring 2003: Tree seed macros Spring 2007: Seven signs Sunspot 930 3 zooms to dew Ultra wide angle versus wide angle photography Yes people Zuni fetishes

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