Grasses are the children of a warming earth, and this is their season. I’ve been talking of science lately, but a science based in poetry and in ancient earth knowledge, so I thought today, […]
Oh, Grass, My Beautiful One!
Earth Talking: The Language of Science Part 4
There are many ways to talk about the earth. One is to speak about it in its own terms. Take the word height, which means hill and head all at once. It’s related […]
Spiders at Work (Not for the Squeamish)
Spiders! An interlude of pure predation, while I work on my next post about science and language. This one is inspired by sticking my head into this asparagus to get some photos of […]
Irony in the Garden
Here’s my front yard. Note the flowers I have planted instead of a lawn. It has been a very exciting place lately. Dozens of species of bees and many species of beetles […]
Curious Grassland Insects
Little guy. Big guy. Don’t be fooled. These critters get close to 5 centimetres long. They are extremely curious, and when spooked will immediately return to keep their two big eyes on […]
Dressing Up for Work
First the workplace, nothing but the best … Mariposa Lily … and then the worker. Just because a flower is a worksite, doesn’t mean you have to dress down. Beautiful Furry Bee […]
Pollination Dance
When one insect …. … crawls, buzzed on nectar … …out of a mariposa lily and flies off to the next flower … Zebra Wasp Takes Wing … another insect that was over […]
Good News for the Butterflies
On Friday, I felt like the earth was one butterfly and one flower away from death, and showed you an image of a single butterfly larva on a single yellow bell… on […]
Good News for Bluebirds on Monday!
I was talking last week about the loss of habitat for Western Mountain Bluebirds. Well, thank god for electric drills! And many deep thanks to the man who came by and got this […]
Humans Go 3-D
Yesterday I talked about how humans (and dogs) navigate the world through one- and two-dimensional patterns and the intersections between them. These are less qualities of the world than qualities of the […]
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