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More travel photos. Series 2: Duke Gardens, Roney fountain, South Lawn.

Some photos from my travels. Series 1: Duke Gardens, from the W.L. Culberson Asiatic Arboretum, including from the uninspired if accurately named Waterfowl Observation Area. What I didn't record was the heron taking a couple steps to the right and impaling a fish, which it then flopped onto the bank and proceeded to poke, flip, drop, and otherwise torment as it ate it alive. I was very disappointed. I thought they at least killed them before eating them. It was very cruel. There are a great many types of ducks, and occasional geese and swans. Mostly ducks, though. Also lots of turtles.

- locked - One of the hardest things about dealing with my mother is she never goes away. She says she's going to go do something, and then she doesn't. You can never plan to do something without her around. Going through the garbage**. Passive-aggressively trying to force everyone to do what she wants. Whatever that is at the moment. It's really amazing (not in a good way). She didn't know how to cook when my parents got married. She comes by some of her control issues honestly; my grandmother allowed NO ONE in her kitchen. My father knew how to cook and bake. That grandmother (and great-grandmother) expected everybody to help out. Now, if he goes anywhere near the stove, even to heat something up, she's on him like white on rice, telling him he doesn't know what he's doing, he''s doing it wrong, he's not allowed to use this or that pan because he'll damage them. It's incessant. It's insane. **She really does this. It's unreal. S...

I feel like I could maybe like this person. Travel needs comfort and practicality. Not cute shoes. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/reader-center/52-places-travel.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/reader-center/52-places-travel.html

I'm not screaming, you're screaming. I do NOT want to live in a video game (This is way too Wreck-it Ralph - Hero's Duty). The ticks are known to swarm and infest deer and animals other than sheep, so the department is warning that it has the potential to infect other North American wildlife species. The ticks reproduce asexually by cloning themselves and just one of them is capable of laying thousands of eggs . Picture blocked because squicky. http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2018/04/a_swarming_exotic_tick_species_now_dwells_in_nj.html http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2018/04/a_swarming_exotic_tick_species_now_dwells_in_nj.html

Such a good boy. https://www.bustle.com/p/a-dog-in-australia-saved-a-lost-3-year-old-girl-the-entire-internet-is-in-tears-8860652 https://www.bustle.com/p/a-dog-in-australia-saved-a-lost-3-year-old-girl-the-entire-internet-is-in-tears-8860652

Wow. Dude. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/20/604489073/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-charged-with-second-felony-computer-data-tampering https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/20/604489073/missouri-gov-eric-greitens-charged-with-second-felony-computer-data-tampering