We cooked outside for Easter today. The birds are in all their glory here in Atlanta. This was the only one brave enough to come within range.
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About 20 of us went to the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge in Tennessee today to shoot the migrating Sand Hill Cranes. The morning started at 4am. When we got there almost 3 hours later, it was 37 degrees, overcast with a 15 or so mph wind. When you didn’t think it could be any worse, we thought about last year when it was only 11 degrees. Anyway, a short while later, it started blowing snow in our face, which it did all morning. Some were back in the cars almost before the cameras were unpacked. Despite all of this, fun was had by all with some great shots taken.
Work sent me to Anchorage. Not wanting to waste an opportunity, I took a couple of extra days and put close to 1500 miles in a rental car driving the Kenai Peninsula and points North. The attorney I was working with owns a float plane and we went out and landed on a couple of the lakes in the area. I took a charter out of Talkeetna and flew over Denali and landed on one of the glaciers. My only regret; I only had three days. I will go back some day and rent a motor home and give the state several weeks of my time. 
The park is a small oasis in the southwest corner of Gwinnett County in the Peachtree Corners area of Metro Atlanta. With shaded walking trails cooled by the Chattahoochee River, people go there to walk, BBQ, fish, raft and swim.
While down in the Boynton Beach, Florida area over Thanksgiving I was able to spend a couple of hours in a very small portion of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge consists of 147,392 acres and includes the most northern remnant of the historic Everglades wetland ecosystem. If you ever get the chance, make sure you stop in. I walked the small area up by the and saw birds, gators, snakes and just about everything you would expect to find in the Everglades.
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