Blog: Mad Man

Entries for June, 2011

Stunning beauty in the countryside

Life's more interesting if you look for the beauty in small things. You just never know when an extraordinary scene is around the curve. Driving back from a quick trip to Charlotte on Father's Day, we were traveling along NC 24-27 near Robbins. We passed a field of sunflowers in ...

A saga of life and birth

There is no telling what drove her to choose this particular site to have her offspring. Perhaps it was the near perfect camouflage for her coloring. Perhaps it was a sense of urgency, stemming from the eggs that she had inside. Whatever it was, she chose a rough, mossy patch ...

Remembering D-Day

Today is the anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Europe in World War II. Most people, less aware of history, or younger and less connected to the generation that went through it, will pass through today and not think about it, or even be aware of it. But today, I ...

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