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And the poor snake was doing so well. I always wondered about carbon dating. And the whole Harold Bluetooth thing is just odd. Too many guns in this country. Seems right. GUILTY! Defaming the “Wild Things.” Currently, a sad reality. My opinion as well as that of Bill Day. Oh, if only we could findContinue reading “Meme and cartoon Monday”

Some cartoons to start a lazy day. Not even a cockroach likes Alex Jones. The court, republicans, the Pope and 45 all trying to hide Kansas. Let’s hide them all! Shorebirds are starting to head south already. Yellowlegs are here as are Calidris sandpipers. It’s hard to identify the sandpiper from this view. A NorthernContinue reading “A slow Sunday at Whitefish Point”

I posted this image six years ago meaning that today is the 77th anniversary of the first nuclear war. A few days after Hiroshima, Nagasaki was bombed by the United states. Sad event to prove a point. Here’s an explosion of flowers, an orange-fringed orchid. I’d rather think about this beautiful flower than the sinsContinue reading “A sad anniversary”

Sometimes a bumper sticker just speaks to you. That was the case with this one. We spent the morning at the fens and dunes at Vermilion Point. There are always nice plants and insects to find here. Not far from the parking lot there is a small patch of Spotted coralroot. This year we gotContinue reading “Live from the U.P.”

Started the day with a few moths. Jack pine budworm is obviously a pest of jack pines, which surround us at Whitefish Point. The green-colored wavy-lined emerald is less of a pest, and more uncommon. Here’s a white eulithis on the left and Formosa looper on the right. Both are as common as the emerald.Continue reading “Moths to start the day, then a fen”

The day started with us losing power during high winds after a storm passed through the area. So, not much happening for us today. As a result I started looking at plants and animals that I had photographed on this day in past years. The above photo is a Bog copper. We’ll be headed outContinue reading “What to do when you lose power during a thunderstorm?”

The out-doors seating getting set up at Avalon in Downtown Ann Arbor, where we had breakfast the other day. As we were heading north to Whitefish Point, we stopped at a rest area where somebody had fun with an interesting array of stickers. More stickers that were all lined up on a light post. WeContinue reading “Eating and traveling”

It’s hard to imagine writing today for 200 years in the future without a “living, changing” document. The Big Lie and the liar who tried to overthrow the government with weave through the memes and comics today. Some people deserve no peace. Mixing law and religion is a bad idea. Just look at the Taliban.Continue reading “Cartoons and the meaning of life”

Before we said goodby to Alexis, Camilla and Oscar their flight was changed and it would have resulted in missing a connection. So, Alexis changed their flights to this morning. As a result we all got to spend another day together. But even that came to an end at 4AM this morning. Here’s Camilla andContinue reading “Changes in flights and another day in Ann Arbor”

Camilla, Oscar and me at the fountain at the Detroit Zoo. Me with my grandfather and great-grandfather at the Belle Isle Fountain. Me with my grandfather (Michele Bellotti) and great-grandfather (Davide Di Francesco) at the Detroit Zoo some 70 years before the photo of me with Camilla and Oscar. Lots of generations between my great-grandfatherContinue reading “The zoo and more”