Published September 20, 2017 Perpetual Flowers A few days ago I visited the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. Water lily flowers are near their peak of delicate blooms, […]
Published December 9, 2015 Cloistered View This pristine view is courtesy of the Cloisters Museum. Located in northern Manhattan, this branch of the Metropolitan Museum holds a collection […]
Published July 7, 2016 Living Fossils Cycads are the oldest insect pollinated plants. The Jurassic is known as the age of the cycads, when these then […]
Published July 19, 2017 Unbearably Cute Many years ago in graduate school I got a grant to study golden monkeys in China, rare primates living in the same […]