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Oh the issues with written English (or some other languages). I think that this might have been part of the problem for the Red Win gs last night.

It’s hard to believe that I spent 5 hours at the EMU Biology Department and at lunch without taking a single picture. It was great seeing Chiron, Anne, Skip and Marianne. Brought back memories of great times. It was also strange seeing my office was not a small conference room. I also spent some timeContinue reading “The art challenge, EMU and more”

Better get your shopping done soon! Anybody else every watch Buck Rogers in black-and-white on late night TV? The Bible is perfect for humor. Ah, written language. Yep, it’s that time of the year. Well, not if you’re a fir. That’s all.

The above photo is neither great nor definitive without a lot of experience. It is, however a photo of four Long-eared Owl that were migrating at Whitefish Point. It was in the 1970s when I first started going to Whitefish Point. That was before the formation of the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (I was aContinue reading “A nocturnal art challenge”

Back around 2003 we were visiting Alexis in Minneapolis and went to a sculpture garden. There was a sculpture of a horse made of tree limbs. Every angle you looked at it was an entirely different perspective. So I decided to do quick sketches of each view with a different brush-pen. I thought that thisContinue reading “Art challenge – variation”

At Whitefish Point we are surrounded by water, and it has been quite rainy recently. But the other night the clouds parted just long enough to see Jupiter and Saturn as well as Venus almost on the other horizon. Yesterday when the rain stopped and the sky started to clear we were fortunate enough toContinue reading “An aquatic art challenge and Whitefish Point”

The art challenge for today is spotted. The above sketch was done at the Belle Isle Aquarium back in the early 1990s. The rest were part of a project illustrating all of the “interesting” animals of Mexico. Each of the big cats have different spotting patterns on their backs. The art challenge for tomorrow isContinue reading “Art challenge – spotted”

It’s time for the Sunday funnies to return. All of my favorites and a few silly memes. There will always be pizza! Why are Americans so anti-metric? It’s so logical and intuitive. And finally, a meme on English, well actually names.

In Spring, 2002 we went to Washington, D.C. because Susan won a Presidential Teaching Award. Additionally, she got to testify before Congress on the state of education in America. As I tell people, I went along as her arm candy. During the day, while she was at meetings and working I found interesting places forContinue reading “Art challenge – keystone and a trip to Washington, D.C.”

When most people think about a desert they think about dry sandy areas. Well, that’s what we have at Whitefish Point. In fact we live on a sand dune that is over 300 feet deep. When we had our well put in they had to go through 300 feet of sand before hitting clay, thenContinue reading “Art challenge – desert”