A Celebration of Mundanity

I recently finished reading "An Obsession with Butterflies" and after carefully reading through the bibliography have recently ordered a number of books used as references. One of these books, I had…

After work I arrived at the bus stop to see more than a dozen or so people already waiting. Some one mentioned they had been there for a half an hour and no buses had come by. I waited there another…

Even though September is an odd time to set up a survey, I was up along the Erie bluffs setting up a new survey today. It is a bit of funding that will keep me alive, I seem to have become THE local…

For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner Each chapter focuses on some aspect of chemical ecology as it relates to insect adaptation, defense or reproduction. Each chapter also focuses on a particular…

We went to the first neighborhood wine tasting gathering, an event that will hopefully continue once a month in the coming months. It was held at our community club house, within waking distance from…

An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect by Sharman Apt Russell A natural history of an obsession, riddled with taxonomy, butterfly biology and ecology, and history…

Back from bioblizting in Erie county. Bioblitz is a new phenomena, it is a noun and a verb. Different from a week long bio-foray, a bioblitz is a 24 to 48 hour event where specialists of every sort…

The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw The author, famed for being the captain of the sister ship to the doomed Andrea-Gail as featured in The Perfect Storm, departs…

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. It's David Sedaris, need I say more?

Keeping with tradition, Mark and I spent the fourth at my aunt