On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
Animals
Scurvygrass (Cochlearia groenlandica) in bloom at Magic Island Today was book-ended by walks at local parks. This morning was a walk around Totem Park, and this evening Halibut Point Rec (a state park). Overall, it was an overcast, but not chilly, day. On my way to Totem Park I had a chance to observe a … Read more
This photo from early April was one of the many photos I dealt with today. When I took the shot, I failed to check the settings and ended up with a very over exposed and blurred image. While looking at it today, I was intrigued with it, and did a little processing to bring back … Read more
I was interested to see that an American Swordgrass Moth (Xylena nupera) had been attracted to the light last night. I haven’t seen one of these too many times (though we did raise one up from a caterpillar), and when I checked saw that I had not done the full photo treatment of one, so … Read more
I took a walk down to Totem Park this morning. It was pretty quiet bird-wise, but there were a fair number of tourists about. Today marked the first cruise ship of the season. Especially with this year’s warmer than usual weather, the first ship serves as something of a marker for the beginning of summer … Read more
The past couple of days have been much cooler with a marine stratus layer in the morning burning off by afternoon. For me it was a fairly quiet day nature-wise. I needed to pick up tests to grade as the semester at UAS is over now. I took a look at Swan Lake and saw … Read more
This morning I woke to a nice marine stratus deck the base of which appeared to be around 2500 feet. I didn’t bother to take a picture at the time (though of course now find myself wishing I had). Throughout the day it mostly broke up, and mostly sunny skies prevailed. However, even into this … Read more