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Whether I am at home or at the cabin I am never sure what books I will be using or reading. Since it is summer I am always pulling out a but or two on insects or plants. Moths seem to be dominating our lives more than in previous years. Last year Susan became moreContinue reading “Books and reading”

For over 58 years I have worked on my family tree. But it grown well beyond a family tree into a family history covering my family in North America, Poland and Italy. This year I have been working on a mystery in Italy. My great-grandfather Stanislao Bellotti (died 1901) was described to me (by myContinue reading “Genealogy, the past that ties us together”

Little did I ever imagine living in a cabin on a sand dune overlooking Lake Superior. But now we are, since 2009. AT the cabin we are surrounded by pines. We are not only surrounded by pines, but also blueberries! Within feet of the cabin we are able to pick blueberries. The other day SusanContinue reading “Living on a sand dune”

Almost every day, when at our house or at the cabin typically starts checks the moths and other insects that are attracted to our lights. So far this year we have had over 400 species of moths that we have identified. Susan usually sees more since she will sometimes check the lights after I haveContinue reading “Our typical morning at the cabin with moths”

This afternoon we decided to head out from our cabin at Whitefish Point to search for orchids and other interesting plants. First we stopped just north of the mouth of the Tahquamenon River to show Dan Sparks-Jackson the large number of small purple fringed orchids in bloom. In a stretch of sone 20 meters thereContinue reading “Photos from today’s adventure”

I used to teach adult ed courses wherever I was able to between the time I ran my own Natural History tour company and when I started writing for the Ann Arbor News and teaching at Eastern Michigan University. One of the courses that I taught was entitled “A short course on eagles.” I lovedContinue reading “A blast from the past”

The current “Covid-19” pandemic is more appropriately a SARS pandemic, and specifically the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This is a virus that is very similar to the earlier SARS pandemic around 2004. Interestingly, when I gave my TED talk on epidemics and pandemics in 2017 the first pandemic that I mentioned was SARS. That virus was oneContinue reading “The growing SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic”