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Christmas 2020

Christmas 2020

This will be more or less an odds and ends post. I took the week of Thanksgiving off work, and did a bit of hiking. New ground for me was the lower Water Canyon Trail. As you can see, there was still a little snow on the ground. A nice...Read more

Some recommendations for serious reading

Every now and then I run into a scientific review paper that is exceptionally good. Review papers are unusually important and are unusually comprehensive and well-written, for scientific papers. They are, nonetheless, not light reading. But if you are willing to plunge in and get the gritty scientific details, here...Read more

Thanksgiving

This Thursday will be Thanksgiving in the United States. The things I’m most thankful for, that are closest to my heart, I’ll express thanks for among my family on that day. But a few lighthearted geology thanks seem appropriate here. I’m thankful to live in an area with such beautiful...Read more
Wanderlusting the Ortega Formation

Wanderlusting the Ortega Formation

Wanderlusting the Ortega Formation was not my original intent, or at least, not my sole intent. I was planning on taking another crack at Arroyo Hondo, the location Gary and I never got to a couple of weeks back. This time I was confident I had my directions straight. Alas,...Read more
Wanderlusting to Nowhere

Wanderlusting to Nowhere

I think I would probably have just rested up this weekend, except the beautiful weather continues to hold but is expected to end today with a big winter storm. I hate to waste a good weekend when the season is practically over. So Friday I got a little exercise by...Read more

Bugs and boys

I think I’ve mentioned that Cindy teaches biology classes at the local branch of the university. She recently ordered some cultures, and I got invited to look at samples under my microscope to be sure there were actually live critters in them. Stentor sample: Live critters aplenty, but none of...Read more

By popular request

My sister, Susan, wants photos of the new fish. That’s the quarantine tank, with its gaudy artificial plants. The fish seem to all be doing well. One turquoise rainbow and three Boesmanii rainbows. They’re tough to sex at this age, but my guess is the turquoise and one of the...Read more
Fall is coming fast

Fall is coming fast

We had a bit of a cold snap this week. No, that’s not normal for early September in Los Alamos. The local paper reports that this is the earliest snow in 105 years. It warmed up again fairly quickly, though, and on Friday I did some local hiking just to...Read more
Wanderlusting the Llano de Albuquerque

Wanderlusting the Llano de Albuquerque

I’ve lost a fair number of older fish from my tank the last two months. Most were ones that I had had for several years, and the other fish in the tank seem okay, so I’m crossing my fingers and hoping it’s just old age. But it meant I needed...Read more

Betta, version 2.0

New betta for the 5-gallon tank. Really quite a pretty little fish. Seems to like his new home. The plants are doing better than I had any right to expect, too.Read more
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