Published February 2, 2016 Seagull Sunset. I hadn’t been to the ocean in many years. So on a short trip to Los Angeles I determined to visit the […]
Published July 23, 2015 Palm impostor The misnamed sago palm is actually a cycad. Cycads date back to the time of dinosaurs and their living relatives trace back […]
Published September 27, 2015 Bumbling Bee Over a hundred years ago, there was a common fallacy that bees shouldn’t be able to fly, so it was a mystery […]
Published February 8, 2018 A tale of two seasons Winter has waged war in my yard this year, alternating between bitter cold and unseasonable warmth. Advancing and retreating, often in the […]