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Saturday, March 26, 2011 - Clear Creek Campground, Camp Verde AZ

 Early Light, Clear Creek Campground, Camp Verde AZ, March 15, 2008
Early Light, Clear Creek Campground, Camp Verde AZ, March 15, 2008

Headed to Laughlin NV

If you're wondering why I'm out here in the middle of Arizona, I'm on my way to Laughlin NV to spend a few days with relatives before heading up to southern Utah for a while.

Night camp

Site 7 - Clear Creek Campground east of Camp Verde AZ

Alex Can Spell

Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.

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