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From across Murdock Lake rises the first stage of the Murdock house, namely the carriage house. The...

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A robber fly whose legs span an inch and a quarter can snatch a small butterfly out of the air and...

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Close-up, with its beak built to punch into bodies, the robber fly is a horror movie come alive.

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Even in the far south of Indiana -- and you can't get much farther south than Perry County -- the lakes freeze up.

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When the air is perfectly windless, the lake below becomes a perfect glistening mirror.

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Opossums are tough, though not so tough as they try to seem when they bare their needle sharp teeth...

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This long-ago tree, now turned to stone, sprouted in a Pennsylvanian swamp some 300 million years...

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Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis, is a woody shrub that grows up to 10-12 feet in height in...

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What can be prettier than something old, durable, like this cream and brown lamp on an antique table...

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Nothing is prettier than a bird on the wing, especially if that bird is an antique biplane such as this Travel Air 4000 from the 1920's..

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What is it I can do for you? Yes, I agree, the world IS amusing, but it's fascinating, too;...

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A century and more ago men built things to last. They used iron and stone and hardwoods and leather....

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We watch fob wearers are a vanishing breed. I think we are taking the enjoyment of time with us.

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Pocket watches are superior to those wrist ornaments nearly everybody wears. Why? Because they...

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Here are some diamonds from an antique manhole cover. Do they project out or recess in? ...

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Three dozen Asian ladybird beetles, Harmonia axyridis, snuggle up to one another under a concrete...

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In this soggy Perry County Indiana ground once called Snyder's swamp by the locals, not far from the village of Leopold, a lake will rise one day.

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Here we look west across Snyder's swamp. The Perry County, Indiana, countryside has a soft, pastoral beauty.

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Uploaded on Dec 26, 2008

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