Dog Friendly Beaches in the Outer Banks – NOT! | Allie Mars

It’s hard to find dog friendly beaches close to us, and we had to drive 12 hours one way for our beach dog vacation. We stayed in Rodanthe, which is in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, also known as …

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Spookfest Coffee Table Book for Your Halloween Party

Allie August 25, 2013

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Halloween is right around the corner, and it’s time to get ready for the annual spookfest. Go one step beyond the standard Halloween decorations, with a coffee table book to entertain your Halloween party guests. Full color photos of spiders, …

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Snakes Dangling From the Trees

Allie August 9, 2013

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One of the scariest pictures they paint of the Amazon rainforest is when they show images of snakes dangling from the trees, up over your head, looking down at you like they’re waiting to drop down on your head the …

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Noah’s Ark — It Just Keeps Raining

Allie July 23, 2013

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Every day my husband asks, “Is it ever going to stop raining?” It just keeps on raining, day after day, with thunder and lightning and torrential rains. This is the type of weather that causes lakes and rivers to flood, …

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Green Frog Turning His Nose Up

Allie April 17, 2013

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Speaking of frogs, the green tree frog turning his nose up in the header of the website is the same little fellow I wrote about in Over the Hummingbird’s Rainbow: An Acre of America Backyard Nature Series. These poses were …

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My Tree Frog Came Home!

Allie April 16, 2013

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He’s been AWOL for six days this time, our tiny tree frog who lives on the back deck among the house plants. He’s barely over an inch long and made his initial appearance over the winter in the house. He’d …

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