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The idea that my friend Megan is doing for her podcast series is part of Sciartober 2021, an endeavor for scientific illustrators. Since i am not a medical illustrator in any sense of the word, I thought that I’d do the ideas for the day with older sketches, drawing and illustrations that I had doneContinue reading “A friend’s artistic challenge”

We spent the first days of fall in Petosky with Mike and Deb. Lots of fun little walks looking for mushrooms. The above three fungi are (left to right) Yellow fairy cups, Bears head tooth fungus, Coral tooth fungus. The above are Wolfs milk (a slime mold) and Common eyelash. Above left is White coralContinue reading “First day of Fall”

Our day, whether at Whitefish Point, in Ann Arbor or elsewhere starts with coffee. It’s just at the cabin our mugs reflect the site. Usually after coffee and breakfast we usually take a walk to the bird observatory to see who might be there, or what birds shave shown up – like the Snow GooseContinue reading “Whitefish Point weekend”

I have been visiting Whitefish Point since the 1978, and we have had a cabin here since 2009. Over the years we have learned a lot about the history of the area (for instance when I first came here what is now the headquarters for the Whitefish Point Bird Observatory was then a general store,Continue reading “Our years at Whitefish Point”

The day started out with high winds and a thunderstorm. Then settled down to a steady rain for much of the morning. Our only moth this morning, since we had the moth lights off for the night anticipating rain, was this little one at the kitchen window – Epinotia septemberana, a moth without a commonContinue reading “Another day in Paradise”

In the late 1980s I had reach what Steve Howell (author of The Birds of Mexico) wrote in Aves Mexicanas about bird migration at the fishing village of Tecolutla. Needless to say I wanted to go there. It was around 1990 that I contacted my friends Jerry, Jody and Sue and asked if they wereContinue reading “My time in Mexico (part-3) – Tecolutla”

Last Sunday we had breakfast at the garden with a great friend. This marked the start of a hectic week. Then we spent part of the day in downtown Ann Arbor. We really enjoyed the “Graffiti Alley.” Nickels Arcade has been a favorite stop for many years. The Michigan Theatre was just begging to beContinue reading “The hectic days of fall”

The other morning I was disturbed by a story I was listening to on NPR. A person discussing the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (Covid-19) stated that the virus mutated in order to continue to evade antibodies and infect other people. Obviously, the person had no training in medicine, microbiology or physiology. Viruses, like anything that containsContinue reading “What are viruses?”

For the first 40 years of working on my “family tree” all of the information that I gathered was from talking to family members. I was fortunate enough to have numerous relatives who were born in the late 1800s who were willing to talk to me. Shortly after 2000 I discovered the genealogy library inContinue reading “Genealogy work over the past few years.”

Time to ignore the insects (hah, as if I can do that) and pick beans. I needed to do this before they were too big and tough. I do this every few days. Typically, I pick enough beans for three meals. But when I added the beans from today we probably had more than aContinue reading “Today in the garden”