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I Got Your Back; or: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, 28 May 2016

I Got Your Back; or: He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, 28 May 2016

My pond is always a place of incredible wonder to me. This year it has been full to some degree since last November. Of course, there were two full-on floods ...
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My pond is always a place of incredible wonder to me. This year it has been full to some degree since last November. Of course, there were two full-on floods that trapped me on the property, though in some ways I take that as a sort of "Get a Bit of Peace Free card to disconnect and unwind. This image is one I snapped just after I noticed the smaller was crawling on top of the other.
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