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Nature Notes: Recent Birds
Here are some new-to-us birds we’ve seen lately. I snapped this photo in the back yard. “It looks like a catbird, but brown,” I mused. My ten-year-old came to look at the picture.…
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Nature Notes: Mystery Solved
Caractacus the mystery caterpillar has revealed his true identity at last. As a caterpillar, he puzzled us by varying the usual coloration of a monarch: But in every other respect he acted like…
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On 9/11
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he has no plans at all. There must be a time of day…
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Flood Pics
Everything is shut down today, we’re boiling water, and waiting to see the final verdict on the damage. Lots of folks are at evacuation centers. We are very fortunate to have a house…
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Praying for Strangers
There are so many ways a book like this could go wrong. It could be super-saccharine. It could be self-righteous, or narcissistic, or overly introspective. It could be pushy. But in telling the…
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Rain
I’m sitting here trying to read and listening to the sound of drenching, roaring, driving rain. This area was flooded extensively in 2006, but today’s rainfall will top that. The Susquehanna has reached…
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Chrysalis Formation
I took some video of a monarch caterpillar’s chrysalis forming today. The caterpillar had spun its silk button and attached itself to the underside of a milkweed leaf — not the ideal spot,…
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This week’s butterflies
Seen this week… This is an older picture — from back in June, but now identified. This is from a few weeks ago. How does a butterfly so torn up continue to fly?…
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Recent audiobooks
Since I’m immersed in a novel that will take me at least another week to finish, I thought I’d share some of the audiobooks that have filled the airwaves in our house lately…
