Obviously, I do rockets, so I like things that fly. This is not some inherent bias against flying things, but there is a challenge with flying cars in that they’ll be quite noisy, the wind force generated will be very high. Let’s just say that if something’s flying over your head, a whole bunch of […]
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It watched us warily through beady brown eyes. Suddenly, it jumped straight up in the air and bolted through the brush. Larry and I jumped in surprise, then tripped over each other. Larry was a city-raised high school buddy of mine who had never had the opportunity to go out in nature much, so my dad […]
The sound sent a chill down my spine, and I froze. Did it echo around the valley or was that just my adrenaline-riddled imagination? I became conscious of the trout hanging from my belt and the blood dripping down my leg. We were backpacking in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness area, and had camped about halfway […]
The great yellow eyes were fixed upon him with a wicked and baleful gleam, and the red tongue licked the longing lips as Sabor crouched, worming her stealthy way with belly flattened against the earth. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs I watched our cat cross the lawn, belly to the grass, eyes […]
Writes of Nature 