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Today’s PSA…

Posted in Science!, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

This is a public service announcement for writers and other humans:

If you’ve ever confused stalactites with stalagmites, here’s a hint: mites crawl.

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Just, Wow.

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on March 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Need something beautiful in your day? Check out NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Click through and mouse over the image for more details, but the photo itself is stunning. Aurora + volcano = Iceland!

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Inspiration, Because Monday

Posted in Likes, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »

It’s Monday and I know I could use some inspiration. Have a picture of a National Park, because wow.

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Door to New Worlds

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Some photos beg to be story prompts, don’t you think?

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

― John Muir

 

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Because Nature!

Posted in Likes, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »

I have two #ThingsILike today, because I couldn’t choose between them. All I can say is wow!

‘When People Can See Time’: Photographer Captures Day, Night In One Image

 

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What Lies Beyond

Posted in Entertainment, Likes, Science!, tagged , , , , , , , on December 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Erik Wernquist’s lovely short film “Wanderers” is making the rounds online, and deservedly so. The piece uses dramatic visualizations of our solar system and is narrated with audio excerpts from Carl Sagan’s book Pale Blue Dot. If you have four minutes and a yen for optimistic futurism, let this film help you imagine humanity’s future on the open road, “out there.” And it’s always good to hear Carl Sagan.

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How Wolves Change Rivers

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on October 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
— John Muir
This video from Sustainable Human is a fascinating look at the impact of an apex predator species on not just an area’s wildlife, but its ecology and even geography. As this article at Nature.com discusses, such trophic cascades can have far-reaching impacts:
When the impact of a predator on its prey’s ecology trickles down one more feeding level to affect the density and/or behavior of the prey’s prey, ecologists term this interaction a feeding, or trophic cascade…
Interesting information, both for denizens of Planet Earth and creators of other worlds as well.

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Went Fishing

Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Had fun fishing. Thought up lots of story ideas while trolling the lake. Did not fall in.

Non-typical wildlife observed on this trip:
— a black bear galloping across the road
— loons and loon chicks
— Merganser ducks
— one heron, Great
— two Trumpeter swans and their four signets
— deer, grazing
— a fox, sprinting
— lake trout, swimming
— terns and/or gulls, I can’t tell them apart
— a bald eagle nest, but the parents were away and the chick was having a bit of a snooze

Also, I learned that reeling in 550 feet of steel fishing line takes ages and is not for the weak of arm!

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Gone Fishing…

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , on July 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Literally. Time in the great outdoors will be good for all sorts of reasons, and we’ve even had reports of bald eagles nesting near the fishing spot. Have a great weekend!

 

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Beauty

Posted in Likes, tagged , , , , , , on February 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Oh look, it’s snowing again, and I realize that I’m on the edge of what I’m calling Snow-Related Stockholm Syndrome. When I start to enjoy the fact that I’m buried under feet of the white stuff, it’s time for a change of scenery. Today, I give you Zion National Park.

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