blackoaknaturalist: I am an optimist

A Quarantine Update

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.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013

I am an optimist

I found this inspiring quote from Ambrose Bierce while searching for something else. It seems to work that way often when I'm searching for particular items in the forest. So, I set out on a long walk with the specific aim of finding things that more often than not are judged to be ugly and finding beauty in them. I'll have more to say about the individual photos later today. For now, scroll through them, maybe click on some for enlargements, and see if Bierce's idea works for you.