St. Louis Springs are like Fall unfolding. Rather than green fading to dying brown, autumn’s last colors are increasingly giving way to green in all its variations. Light green, dark, medium, pale, yellow green, bluish. Among the verdant defiant, bright purple or pale pink flowers on late blooming tree, joined by vivid red and yellow […]
Category: Environment
I’m going to go back to talking about my squid. Or reading about my squid. My squid was fun and exciting and provided adventure and mystery. Think of it, we talk about voyaging into space but there are creatures in the deep of this world we know nothing about. We just found a member of a species […]
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New squid on the block
Knowing my obsession with the giant squid, Jonathon sent me a link to a relatively fresh story from the BBC about an intact speciman of giant squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni found in Antartica waters. This in itself is exciting because so little is known about this species of squid outside of what’s recovered from the stomach of its chieftest enemy – the sperm […]
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A helping paw
I remember when Ryan got his new kitten, Marley. From the photos he was the cutest kitten and I could tell that Ryan was wrapped around his little paw. Ryan writes today that Marley is pretty sick and needs to have specialized surgery. As with most animal care, there is no insurance to cover the cost of […]
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Ahhh Factor test
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Pretty good looking for a lady in her middle years, isn’t she?