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.
Here are a few more photos from last Sunday's walks in the vicinity of the Oakland Feather River Camp. Besides the showy flowers already blooming, we saw lots of buds of other species that will bloom soon. The ones I anticipate most are the other two species of milkweeds as they attract such a great variety of pollinators. Hopefully, I'll start finding butterfly larvae, too. They are usually hanging from the undersides of leaves, so you don't see them unless you patiently turn over leaf after leaf. Fun, though. There's always a surprise eventually - in this area that could be a rattlesnake!
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