exploring nature’s infinite connections
Happy Arbor Day! Many people celebrate Arbor Day by planting a tree (or trees), which is wonderful. Picking the right tree for the right place is important. This is especially important in urban or suburban planning situations where you want to achieve the best value...
Questions. Thousands and thousands of questions. Ever since I can remember, this has been one constant in my life. Could this be why I was drawn to math and science? After all, a constant craving for answers cannot go completely...
As I whittle my way through this task of recreating my galleries, I am learning little efficiencies along the way. This gallery plugin I am using, NextGen Galleries, has an interfacing Adobe Lightroom module. It's another plugin within the plugin!...
We are all made of star dust indeed. The rock before me, formed from many of the same elements that I am. We both originated in the cosmos somewhere. I tend to spend a lot of time looking at the sky amazed at what I can see, and thoroughly depressed about what I...
Living in the Detroit area, you can't help but be surrounded by activities related to the Great Lakes, the major rivers here, and the connected lakes in between. Lake St. Clair, the connecting lake between Lake Huron and Lake Erie, is a frequent destination of mine...
I really wish I was a better naturalist. I try though. My bookshelf is filled with identification guides of all sorts - bugs to birds, lichen to leaves. . But the ol' hard drive in my head can't seem to pack in much more information these...
Ever since I listened to Craig Tanner's excellent podcast (now defunct) talking about the various stages of twilight, I have had this graphic in my mind. I finally sat down one day and created the illustration in Photoshop. While Craig describes exactly why it is...