Posts under ‘Nature is amazing’

Writing the text and uploading the photos is not so useful without also posting them, it seems.
Today was filled with an all-day meeting, but the roomful of visiting and local scientists did manage to get outside for a while, to check out the local watershed from top…

… to bottom.

This is a nasty invasive – [...]

The babies have gotten big. They aren’t able to fly yet, and are still all fuzzy and cute.

Nick and I ate dinner outside on campus, and were immediate beset on all sides by ravenous and horribly spoiled ducks.

And I do mean beset. And all sides. They snuck up from behind, one ran across my [...]

Ike blew through last night, with 50 mile an hour gusts even this far from landfall. There were branches down all over town this morning, but nothing worse. All the rain stayed in Chicago; we could have used a bit, and I’m sure they would have been happy to not get quite as much. The [...]