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It's hard to imagine salmon runs in urban creeks, but after lots of hard work on habitat restoration by volunteers, Pipers Creek supports a small run of coho salmon. She's hard to see but that's the point of camouflage. You don't want an eagle to swoop down for a salmon dinner before she gets her business done.

It's a hard life, to be sure, to be a street musician, but it would have its joys, as we can see in this video of a fellow working at a street market in Bordeaux.

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Thankfully not in your pants.

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From time to time Callie will leave her comfy basket to see what's going on in the world.

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We started to see these hoses stretch across people's yards during last month's record rainfall. The basement might be flooding but who wants to go mucking about the downspout drains in winter? Right now, you just want the water to go somewhere else.

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See, she was under those covers the whole time. Callie loves to burrow deep into her basket.

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Oh, she's under there, all right. Trust us and you'll see...