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A talk about Brazil

Last night I had the pleasure of giving a talk on the Pantanal, Brazil at the downtown library. The talk was surprisingly well attended. We saw a bunch of people tht we hadn’t seen in a long time. Here are a couple of photos that I used. Sunbitterns, a favorite tropical bird. Giant anteater with…

Holiday Beach, Ontario

Yesterday my friend Mike and I spend the morning and early afternoon at Holiday Beach Conservation Area in Ontario, Canada. From 1980 until around 1990 I spend a lot of time there as both a bird-watcher and hawk counter. But, not only did we go there we got to use the Gordie Howe Bridge to…

A few sketches

This is from January, 2001. It must have been a weekend or during the summer. We were sitting across the street at State and Liberty. Neither of these business exist any more. Minneapolis in the summer of 2001. Alexis was sitting and writing as I sketched. A viceroy crysallis. A beetle that I collected in…

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