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Today was a travel day for us, from Ann Arbor to Whitefish Point. It is uncommonly warm at the cabin as it is already dark and still 51F. But the problem that I am having is dealing with time change, which I am not a fan of. Pick on and stick with it. Now onContinue reading “Odds and ends with Monday moaning comics”

This Black-billed Magpie, a western North American species spent a week at our feeders at the cabin sometime around 2010-12 The Golden Eagle is a common migrant in small numbers in April and early May at Whitefish Point. While I have never photographed a Northern Hawk Owl at our cabin, this one was about half-wayContinue reading “Some birds from Whitefish Point over the years.”

That’s all for today – just comics. Later a little on Chichen Itza, Mexico.

The above piece of art I created years ago from stamps that were essentially worthless. I cut them around interesting images and stuck them down onto a piece of watercolor paper. Each group in there tells its own little story. There are birds and Primates all over the place. A group of fish. There areContinue reading “The garden and more at the start of November”

The final art challenge for October is entitled “predator.” I’ll start with the head of a Gyrfalcon that I have used previously. Raptor feet and their talons are impressive. For the past two years we have been able to watch a pair of Osprey attempt to nest on a cell tower that we can seeContinue reading “The final art challenge of October”

The new set up for moths. Susan just received two LED-black lights to go with our florescent black light. The past two night there were a few midges and moths, nothing spectacular. We also had a green lacewing. None of the calling tree-crickets came to the lights. Not many days left for this before itContinue reading “A floral art challenge and more”

And now on to the slimy art challenge – I’ll start with some of the slugs that are found in Michigan, and probably all of eastern North America. And now a fungus – this is a slime mold. we find them from early spring until late fall all over the place. A final virus noteContinue reading “The Friday funny pages and art challenge”