Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Two new historical blogs

A welcome to the historical blogosphere goes out to these folks:

Favorite PASTimes - six authors "sharing their insights on writing, reading, viewing and researching historical fiction."

Word Wenches - seven of my favorite romance and historical writers "plotting in the present, writing about the past...and improvising the rest. " This blog's been up for a month, but I just came across it yesterday, via one of the author's signature files on RRA-L.

The next bit isn't HF-related, but since it's such a great photo (credit goes to my husband) I wanted to share something we saw in our backyard earlier tonight:



It's turning into a real wildlife sanctuary - we've got raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, and the usual birds (including hummingbirds) out there on a regular basis. The cats love it.

4 comments:

  1. Oh--we just had a deer in our front yard this very morning. Biggest one I've seen so far! But I couldn't get a photo of her.

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  2. Great picture!!!

    We have deer here too - almost hit one on the road last week. A little TOO close for my comfort in this case *g*.

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  3. The ones here don't always hang around long enough to photograph. But this one was around for 5+ minutes, munching on trees.

    And this morning we had a big black cat (a little smaller than Max) a few feet outside the screen porch. I knew something was up b/c Callie started making the strangest high-pitched shriek. When I got out there, her tail was big and puffy, and she and the other cats were lined up in a row to defend their territory. That's the only time they get along.

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  4. Aw, that's cute.

    We don't get deer here, but lots of smaller animals. Including martens that love to chew on cables in cars.

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