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But first, what’s happening in the Ukraine. The attack on the nuclear power plant is both scary and unimaginable. I hope that this is all resolved soon. In 2013 I was invited to an Anatomy & Physiology meeting in New Orleans. Susan was able to attend with me. She was able to wander town whileContinue reading “New Orleans meeting – 2013”

This is ll too familiar a problem. I went through a lot the same issues several years ago, Fortunately, I am still here to annoy people with my writing and photos. Right now the garden consists of enough kale plants to get us through the next couple of months. But it’s time to plant nextContinue reading “Walking in the neighborhood and thinking about the garden”

On this beautiful winter day I have been looking at some drawings that I did last spring. I was drawing the spring ephemerals as I has seen them. Here are a few violets. I’m thinking of redoing these drawings, but in color. Long-spurred violet is perhaps my favorite violet to find in the spring. WeContinue reading “A beautiful winter day in Ann Arbor”

Our day started in Weverville. I worked with Mark at the Insect Division of the University of Michigan Museums of Zoology some 25 years ago. We would often go out insect collecting together and had some amazing road trips together. Today we went out photographing plants. Our destination today was Rocky Fork State Park inContinue reading “A fun day with Mark and Adrienne”

Since today is Tuesday, 22 February 2022 and we switched drivers at 2:22 pm, it seemed appropriate to start off with a photo of the screen in our car. Sunrise this morning at Fernandina Beach. Venus is high to the upper right. We stopped to pick up treats for friends and I couldn’t resist BertContinue reading “South Carolina on “2s-day””

Out day with Sue and David started with a beautiful sunrise. Looking in the other direction towards the place that Sue rents in the winter. A green anole alone the greenway that runs through town. More anoles. An adult and juvenile White Ibis. In the afternoon, before dinner we went shopping.at Story & Song, aContinue reading “Our day at Fernandina Beach”

Sometime you just need to revisit locally common birds at a really great spot. Today we spent the morning with Tom and Kathi do just that, photographing birds, like this White Ibis. The last time we were here I didn’t spend enough time photographing Pied-billed Grebes. Today I did. The head feathers on this GreatContinue reading “Revisiting Apopka Wildlife Drive”

Our first day visiting our friends Tom and Kathi in Dunellon, Florida found us walking around the neighborhood looking at birds including White Ibises (AKA “long-billed lawn chickens”) before we headed out to the Goethe State Forest. We stopped at a small roadside slough where Tom had previously found an American Bittern and was pleasantlyContinue reading “Our first day in Dunnellon”

After the rain ender this morning we visited with friends Patsy and Ken. We had a wonderful walk on the beach where we saw all of the typical gulls, terns and sandpipers. we were able to watch several Northern Gannets over the ocean. Even the Laughing Gulls were tired of the rain. Many of theContinue reading “Daytona Beach for birds and a whale”

Red mangrove, flowers and fruits. A nice way to start our day. As we continued our walk today into the Eldora Hammock Trail, we found quite a few Shoestring ferns. This one was nearly two-feet in length. Moths have become a bigger part of our trip south this year. We havre been setting up lightsContinue reading “Another full day at Canaveral National Seashore”