ema From the New York Botanical Garden’s 2024 orchid show, a fashion-inspired celebration of all things orchids. Compared to last year, this year’s show had half the number of orchids and quite a few mannequins. Loved the orchids (look for them in an upcoming Garden Chat), quite meh on the rest. I mean, if you …
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On The Road – BigJimSlade – Kauai 2015, Helicopter tour, Na Pali coast
BigJimSlade OK, the sun broke through for the afternoon and we had great views up and down the Na Pali coast. Going through my pictures from this day was a reminder on how challenging it was to shoot from (especially as a beginner) from a helicopter – lots of blurry shots!
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On The Road – BigJimSlade – Kauai 2015, Helicopter tour, south side
BigJimSlade Ok, I’ve been thinking about posting pictures from our Kauai trip from 2015 for so long that I could swear I’ve done it. I searched the site and couldn’t find anything, so let’s go for it. If I’ve done this already and it was lost in the incredible site kablooie of a while back, …
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On The Road – Argiope – Quebec City Part Deux: we get around.
Argiope Welcome back to Quebec City and its environs! I had to interrupt our virtual vacay due to some work stuff, so let’s reorient ourselves: we were planning to head out to where the waterfalls flow and moose frolic. Let’s go!
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On The Road – Albatrossity – Favorite Birds
I am invariably asked “What’s your favorite bird?” whenever I give talks to elementary or middle school students, so I posed that question to a few fascists. Here are their responses!
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On The Road – frosty – 3rd Annual National Park/COVID Challenge – Oregon – Birds of the Oregon Coast
frosty When we were at Cannon Beach I woke up early, and having checked the tide tables at Haystack Rock the night before I knew that low tide was around 7:00 AM. Low tide means you can walk to the foot of the rock so I headed out with my camera to see what I …
On The Road – frosty – 3rd Annual National Park/COVID Challenge – Oregon – Astoria and Cannon Beach
frosty We spent a little time in these two Oregon Coast towns. We were camped in Cannon Beach for four days and spent one of them on a day trip to Astoria, the first town settled west of the Rockies. The guidebooks say that many Victorian houses were built on the hills – if they …