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Our day started at the North Star Inn in Corinth, Kentucky. I would recommend this place if you are taking I-75 either north or south through Kentucky. First time since we were at Sault Ste. Marie in early January that we woke to frost on the car. It was 27F, and running the car asContinue reading “Back in Michigan”

After spending time with so many friends in the south this really makes sense. Heck yes! I’ll take a good tequila or mescal over beer any day. I had a negra modelo with lunch yesterday and a bit of Espolon in the evening while playing a game with Mark. The Espolon labels are as entertainingContinue reading “North Carolina to Kentucky”

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”

We finally got into North Carolina yesterday. Susan and I spent the morning on a trail at Pisgah National Forest. Now we can say we have been at Pisgah, North Carolina and Pisgah, Oregon. The stream here was clear and rocky. There were fly-fisherman at nearly every pull-off along the stream. We headed up aContinue reading “North Carolina!”

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”

We were out looking for birds the other day and came to this sugarberry and palm that were side-by-side. That in itself was not very interesting. But the birds that were there were. There were two Loggerhead Shrikes in the sugarbush. The male was singing and the female arrived with nesting material. A better photoContinue reading “Looking for birds and a night filled with moths”

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”

Somehow, the above image of two Christmas lichens merging into one seemed an appropriate find for Valentine’s Day. We spent the morning on a trail at Spruce Creek Preserve. The trails were easy walking, although sometimes muddy. But we managed to get in a nice walk. One of the little canals that drains to SpruceContinue reading “Spruce Creek, Florida for Valentine’s Day”