I don’t expect to see anything interesting when I’m walking the dogs at 7:40am. Maybe I should, but years of nothing eventful taking place has surely jaded me. On the morning in question, I’m not talking about the lovely Monarch butterfly I saw hanging out on the Parkers’ trellis, though Kathy and Emelia followed me [...]
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Learning of Nature
Posted in Nature on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yellowstone Revisited
Posted in Nature, Travel on June 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In 1989 during our cross-country road trip, Pete and I visited Yellowstone. There were two distinct reasons why that experience was less than ideal. First, record wildfires had hitYellowstone the year before, and blackened forests were everywhere. Second, we had no clue what we were supposed to check out — we saw Old Faithful, saw [...]
Critters From the Weekend
Posted in Nature, Travel on June 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I’ll post some of the scenery I saw during my visit to Montana and Yellowstone, but today I decided to focus on the myriad critters we saw over the weekend. Along our first hike of the weekend we saw dozens of snails scattered along the path. Butterfly, or moth? Regardless which, it’s Pete’s latest [...]
Spring!
Posted in Life, Nature on April 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Often Spring seems to vanish as quickly as it arrives, just a brief interlude between the cold grayness of winter and the sticky heat of summer. Never mind that the calendar says it lasts for three months — it sometimes seems that two weeks is all you get. This year, for the first time in [...]
Happy New Years
Posted in Nature, Travel on January 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A snowy evening in Connecticut left a blanket of snow for this morning. The slate has been cleared, everything is fresh and ready to start anew.
Escape in the City
Posted in Nature on October 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Where do you go when you need to escape the city, to reconnect with nature? Actually, you don’t need to leave the city — the National Arboretum is about one-and-a-half miles away from our house, and it makes for a nice getaway where we can take the dogs for a little walk in the woods. [...]
If You Can’t Sleep…
Posted in Nature on June 17, 2005 | 5 Comments »
…you might as well go out on the roof in your underwear and watch the sunrise.
Sunday Boating
Posted in family, Nature on June 8, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Kathy’s Mom stayed with us on Saturday night, and Sunday morning the three of us, together with the dogs, headed to Gunpowder Falls State Park in Maryland. There, we met up with Kathy’s Dad, who had boated down from New York (where he had stored the boat over the winter at the end of last [...]
Roses
Posted in Nature on May 30, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Buy more stock in rosesMillionaires will always wooDon’t be shocked if rosesmake a millionaire of you– “Roses,” The Magnetic Fields The first two are from our garden, and the bush is two doors down.
A Bird and 2 Bugs
Posted in Nature on May 19, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Some photos from our Sunday trip visiting a friend in the nearby “country”: Think Junebug would be happy living in the country?
