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Blurry Pictures, Blurry Mind

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I've been trying to write more. For the past year, I have mostly been working on my doctoral dissertation on true crime and little else. Every once in a while I work on the ongoing novel or a poem or a short story. I write a daily to-do list that always contains a blog post along with job applications, abstracts, and the perpetual expected pages of revision. I seldom get to it, but I usually finish about half of my list. Today I am working on procrastination by listening to a live Drive-by Truckers set from Charlotte in 2004. It is pretty damn good in short. Maybe I will get around to reviewing it one of these days. In preparation for this post, I looked through my pictures because I hoped that I could blog about some outdoor photos I took. No such luck today. A shortage of funds and time has kept me indoors, slaving away over text I wrote a year ago and sending in abstracts to journals that will undoubtedly reject them. But that is the life. I will be posting some pictures soon ...

Seasonal Shifts: Channahon State Park and the I & M Canal

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Channahon State Park in Wills County, Illinois,  near the confluence of the DuPage, Des Plaines, and Kankakee rivers. We walked on a trail that follows the old Illinois & Michigan Canal route. The hollow log and the rusted loop are my favorites.  Read about the canal here:  http://www.canalcor.org/CCA_Hist.html

Seasonal Shifts: Starved Rock State Park

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“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed." -Edward Abbey Starved Rock State Park in LaSalle County, Illinois.

Seasonal Shifts: Maquoketa Caves State Park

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 "Now, why do we want to go messing with the moon for? If God wanted a man on the moon he would have built a road there. I get a hundred thirty-five dollars a month from Social Secure, and I sure can't afford to live there." -- Veris Metzger in James York Glimm's Snake-Bite: Lives and Legends of Central Pennsylvania , 1991.  Maquoketa Caves State Park in Jackson County, Iowa.