Shedwin

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I tried getting a job, but it wasn’t easy with that sum-bitch Reagan in office.

Small, bright yellow flowers on the branches of a spicebush tree (Lindera benzoin). The flowers appear early, before the tree leafs out.
Trout lilies! Beautiful mottled leaves with yellow flowers. An early ephemeral.
Frogs swimming vigorously around a small pond.
Several wood frogs cavorting about in my pond.
Glorious red Japanese maple
A flock of 30 or more black vultures standing around on a little league baseball field.
A large roadside sign that says, “Welcome to Scenic Saltville—salt capital of the confederacy.” A confederate flag sign is just below it
“It is you, the Americans, by such bad deeds, who push the red men to do mischief. You do not want unity among the tribes, and you destroy it. You try to make differences between them. We, their leaders, wish them to unite and consider their land the common property of all, but you try to keep them from this.” — Tecumseh
How can we have confidence in the white people? When Jesus Christ came upon the earth, you killed him, the son of your own God, you nailed him up! You thought he was dead, but you were mistaken. And only after you thought you killed him did you worship him, and start killing those who would not worship him. What kind of a people is this for us to trust? Quote by Shawnee leader Tecumseh
A child on a bike looking towards the same intersection from the previous photo, except now the water has receded and been replaced by mud. Cars enter an intersection with no working traffic lights. A mud-soaked bale of cardboard from a recycling plant upstream sits in the middle. Now that the river water has gone, we can see that it was probably four or five feet deep here during the flooding
Geese swim placidly in brown water that covers a road; road signs are nearly covered in water
A large black bear ambles through my little pond and heads on to somewhere else.
A huge, ancient grapevine spreads like tentacles through the forest
The tips of corn in a field, with blue sky and clouds above
Sun shining on water, with a submerged river plant (water shield?) in the foreground and reflections of buildings on the far side
A black and white cat in the foreground with red dogwood leaves in the background
A hand holding a large black beetle
American mountain ash tree with bright red clusters of berries
A yellow, furry caterpillar crawling down a tent stake strap.
Two kids standing in front of a waterfall
Roots and rock
Two groundhogs eat under a bird feeder; the camera slowly pans to a close-up shot of a hummingbird at a window feeder
A hygrometer reading shows humidity levels somehow over 100%
The fruit and leaves of a pawpaw tree
Wing from a butterfly; black with blue and orange spots, possibly a red-spotted Admiral
A hummingbird moth flits between pink phlox flowers
The trunk of a white oak tree next to that of a black cherry tree. The white oak bark is very light colored; the cherry bark is very dark
Two boys stand knee deep in a peaceful river, backs turned to us, holding fishing poles
A small pond surrounded by plants: jewelweed, native hydrangea, ferns, arrowroot, and filled in with water lilies
Cicada with red eyes, black body on a green leaf.