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Tonight, at around 8:15 p.m., Don called me to bring my camera and look at this weird cloud formation. This is not the sunset, but some clouds almost opposite the direction of the setting sun (click on images for larger view). I’m guessing that they were picking up some of the light from the sun, […]
The weekend weather forecast is looking good, so we’re off to do some hiking on local trails. However, I wanted to remind everyone that the latest edition of Good Planets are Hard to Find is up at Susannah’s Wanderin’ Weeta blog. While you’re there, you might like to check out a three part series of […]
The weather has been very erratic here over the past few weeks. Last weekend, we were baking, but the past couple of days, I’ve been covering the vegetable garden with tarpaulins as there has been a threat of frost. As I write this post, the temperature is about 15C (58F). It was colder yesterday morning […]
Yesterday’s field trip with the high schools students went very well. I’ll post something about it tomorrow after all of the photos are up online. As it turned out, we spent most of our time walking along discussing interesting things found along the trail. As a consequence, we ended up not having time to do […]
I almost posted these photos a couple of weeks ago right after they were taken. However, before I had a chance to do so, some events began to unfold and I decided to just stow them away for awhile. Now, circumstances have changed and I can write about them and also about some of what’s […]
We’re finally having some great weather here – sunny skies and temperatures around 18C (64F) and it’s supposed to become much warmer next week. No doubt, the mosquitoes will be making their appearance en masse any time now! We’re planning a weekend of hiking, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be posting over the […]
Diurnal Firefly (Ellychnia corrusca) resting atop a bright yellow Xanthoria species of lichen which is growing over a Physcia aipolia lichen. This is just an update to let everyone know that I haven’t fallen off the face of the Blogger BioBlitz map — at least, not yet! I skipped posting yesterday to concentrate on taking […]