rantings & ramblings
Great Lakes Awareness Day celebrates the Great Lakes, as well as highlighting the issues they face and efforts to preserve them. Taken together, the five lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) make up the largest freshwater body on Earth. Now facing pollution and invasive species, over 140 federal programs support environmental restoration and management of the lakes.
“Keep the Great Lakes Great” is a slogan I could get behind.
It’s World Carnivorous Plant Day! I am privileged to live where the Venus Fly Trap grows naturally, but elsewhere in the world there’s also plants like butterwort, cobra lily, pitcher plant, sundew, monkey cup, and bladderwort. These types of plants typically feed on insects, but beware any plant found during a total eclipse asking you (in song) to feed it . . .
Looking back at the week that was and thinking about posting for the future.
Continue reading “The Future is Looking Puntastic”
Sometimes you’ve just got to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. From Cape Fear to Kitty Hawk and the Outer Banks, the adventure continues.
Continue reading “Coasting Along”
With apologies to John Updike, whose work I have not read. And with apologies to my friend Michial, who has published works on Updike.
Continue reading “Run, Rabbit”
Let me share two quick stories with you, both about remembering, in their own way.
Continue reading “Pizza & Plant”
Running In My Head 