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I love snow, and nothing is likely to change that. Last weekend on the very first official day of Spring, DFW got hit with an unusual snowstorm. People in north Dallas received 9" of snow. Where I lived, not a flake in sight. However, last month I enjoyed a weekend in the mountains of Arizona, and here are a few of those moments I enjoyed.

The entire weekend it came down, giving me yet another good reason for a nice roaring fire in the fireplace.

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Here are a few pictures that I liked from those I took with a photo box that I build.

This pink tabling acro has been growing in my tank for a couple of years, ever so slowly. It started as a tiny fraglet.


The "orange blob" lives up to its name.


It is interesting how the Montipora and the Birdsnest are intertwining. ...

Today, I decided to take a little time out to clean up my reef. I removed empty snail shells littering the sand bed, siphoned out the cyano bloom that has been bothering me for the past couple of week, blasted off some of the corals usually affected with AEFW, and moved a few pieces around.

The Platygyra pini (maze coral) was being heavily shaded by the "orange blob" to the point that I knew I had to rescue it soon. When I pulled it out today, I was rather surprising how much that ...

Sherman's Lagoon appears in our local paper, and I've been amassing some of my favorites for a while now. Here you go:

My love of cartoons will never cease.