Category: Natural History
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Seek, and Ye Shall Find
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. ~Confuscius This past month, I have tried to find 5 or 10 minutes each day at work to walk around the building breezeways to photograph any moths that were attracted to the lights the previous night. I hope to create a library of Read more…
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Savanna Sights
To think that plants ate insects would go against the order of nature… ~Carl Linnaeus After a crazy busy spring field trip season at work, I am finally getting around to catching up on a couple of posts. Like last year, toward the end of April I collaborated with Melissa and the NC Museum of Read more…
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Getting Back To It
It’s always good to get back to the places you love… Life has been way too busy these past many weeks and my blog entries have suffered, but I finally have a break this morning while I wait on some overdue car maintenance. With the busyness has been less time exploring outside, but this weekend Read more…
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Grubosaurus
The Eastern Hercules has a wing span up to half a foot, the armor of a knight, and the spots of a leopard. ~Orin McMonigle I guess I should be honored that the front desk volunteer thought of me first. One day a little over a week ago, I got a call saying a woman Read more…
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Wild Places
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it, the more beautiful does it appear. ~Richard Dawkins Memories of Yellowstone are still lingering in my head…the scenery, the snow, the quiet, and the incredible wildlife. So, I did what I needed to do for my spirit last Read more…
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The Place We Love
Sometimes you look at an empty valley like this, and suddenly the air is filled with snow. That is the way the whole world happened – there was nothing, and then… ~William Stafford We have returned from our special place – Yellowstone. Not all of us is back. We seem to always leave a little Read more…
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Winter Bliss
When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go. ~Alexandra Stoddard I certainly carry certain places with me. And moments in those places have a way of adhering to my memory, reappearing when my mind wanders to sights and sounds of their wildness, their beauty, their mystery. And I now Read more…
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Pausing
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day. ~ Kent Nerburn As usual, it has been another busy week – catching up on rescheduled programs (due to our incredibly rainy fall), Read more…
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Awesome Arachnids
She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away. If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not Read more…
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See No Weevil…Well, Just One
A big nose never spoiled a handsome face. ~French proverb I set out the moth light the other night and had a few species come in, but had many non-moth visitors – katydids, a praying mantis, lots of caddisflies, and one very interesting little guy, a weevil. Weevils are the largest family of beetles with Read more…
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