Fall Maple

I was in Seattle on business part of last week. It was the first time in a while I had been anywhere that has an approximation of the tree colors of an Eastern Fall. Just wanted to share this picture I took of a beautiful maple.

Another Quote

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges

Major Find at the Whydah Wreck

I’ve posted several times about underwater archaeology at the wreck of the Whydah, an 18th century pirate ship sunk off the Massachusetts coast. A couple of months back it was announced that a 4,000 pound metal concretion had been discovered in the wreck. Steve’s sister Karen Bodio-Graham has passed along this article from a local …

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California Fires

About this time last year I posted on the tough fire season Southern California was having. Two years ago was one of the wettest in the area for the last 150 years and this past year was about the driest, making for lots of dry fuel. Today’s NY Times reports that this situation has made …

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First of the Season

Our first snow storm of the season hit early Sunday morning and left us with 6-7 inches of wet snow. This view of the deck gives you a little better idea of how much accumulation we had. It really was very wet snow. The peach trees on the east side of the house still have …

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Indian Peaks

On Sunday of last week, Connie and I went with our friends Jeremy and Monica and their two children (plus one friend) up to Boulder County for a picnic and hike in an area just east of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area. This is a shot of the Indian Peaks from near where we parked. …

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More Kapuscinski

Following Steve’s lead, here’s another quote from Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Travels with Herodotus: “A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long …

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Neanderthal Range Extended

Nicholas Wade, working the paleoanthropology beat for the New York Times, reports again on Neanderthal DNA research. Svante Paabo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (where Steve’s friend Laura Niven works) has recovered Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA from bones excavated from two sites in Central Asia: “One is Teshik Tash, in …

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