Category: Natural History
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Keeping Current – The Wild Things
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. ~Ted Turner My only regret from our canoe camping trip last month was that I did not bring my usual camera gear to record some of the wonderful wildlife we Read more…
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Keeping Current – The River
The rivers flow not past, but through us… ~John Muir it has been a little over a month since our paddling adventure. I’m finally getting around to sharing some of the incredible memories from that trip. My knee has been causing some real problems these past few months so we agreed to try a paddling Read more…
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Things You Might Not See
Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. ~ Francis Pharcellus Church It had been over a week since I checked the three trail cameras, so I was anxious to see what had transpired in our patch of woods without us knowing. There has been a definite Read more…
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BugFest Beauties
Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord. ~Thomas Eisner If it is September, it must be time for BugFest, the premier annual special event of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. In years past, it has ranked as the Read more…
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Butterflies, Blooms, and Bears
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~Hal Borland I headed down to Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge last week for an “end of summer” day trip (actually more of a “before hunting season begins” road trip). Read more…
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Yard Mystery
Experience suggests it doesn’t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. ~Lois McMaster Bujold I took this photo of a Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea) in May of 2006. I was walking around the yard looking for insects to photograph and stumbled upon this frog, backlit on a Tulip Read more…
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Pink Horn
It’s the horns of a dilemma, no question about it. ~Steven Jeffrey Melissa needed a few caterpillars for a teacher workshop this week, so I went out the other night with our UV flashlight to scan the vegetation around the house. A reminder that many species of caterpillars glow under UV light at night, making Read more…
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What is That?
The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new… ~Henry F. Schaefer, III Last night we had friends over for pizza and beer and …mothing (wait, what?, you mean you don’t have people over and put out a moth light when it is 90 degrees and 95% humidity?). Read more…
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Summer Scenes
The night still twinkles with fireflies but the day’s heat lingers and the air has a dusty August scent, the smell of languid Summer. ~Hal Borland We are definitely in the Dog Days of Summer, the heat and humidity making me rethink my desire to be out and about in the afternoon. But, it only Read more…
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Pungo Heat
…the light of July and August is the day’s dazzle, hot light, with the season’s dust slowly accumulating and making the sky we see a giant silvered reflector. ~Hal Borland Last Friday was probably the hottest day of this summer thus far. So, naturally, I decided to head to the Pungo Unit of Pocosin Lakes Read more…
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