This has not been a busy year on my blog, having sometimes gone a month or more without posting anything new. Currently teaching three college classes online from home, and not finding much time to write and post images for the blog. One more week in the semester and Spring has sprung, so that should change. I have a backlog of several dozen photos taken in the last few weeks, so I will soon be posting them along with stories of the experiences I'm having along the way. My overall theme is generally concentrated on flowering plants and their symbiotic relationships with their pollinators. When the mood strikes, I insert philosophical and political comments. Please feel free to share your comments, but please be nice. I try to be.
I have been teaching since 1965 and have recently joined the English Department as an Associate Faculty member at Feather River College. Recently taught Nature Literature in America and am currently teaching Interpersonal Communication and Basic Reading and Writing.
For a look at some of my flower photos from the past few days, check out the "Bloom Blog" link on the website of the Plumas Visitors Bureau. Here I'm posting a few animal photos I got recently, the one on top this afternoon where I park my car. These are Convergent Ladybird-beetles; hard to get used to that name after a lifetime of calling them Ladybugs. But they are beetles and not bugs. Another pair of mating beetles were seen in the Dandelion patch near the Greenville Y. I wasn't able to identify these. The Robin perched on a pile of dead birch trees in my yard let me get pretty close. It almost seemed as if he wanted to communicate. The Pill Bug did what Pill Bugs do, rolled up and looked like a pill when I tipped over a rotting log near our school garden. Last, breaking the pattern, the flower which was the first species I saw blooming this year, a month ago, is now matured and going to seed along the lower portion of the stem while still putting out flowers at the top. Typical pattern of the mustard family. I'll be posting flowers again soon, but I recovering from an intense week of preparing my photo show at the gallery of the Plumas County Museum. Please check out my exhibit titled "Cultivating Biophilia" during the months of May and June. There are currently over 20 photos in the show, but I'll be adding more during the month.
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