Summer

Jul 15, 2007 23:47

Another hot day today, this time with no chance of rain.  Hard blue sky, puffy white clouds that did not turn into thunderheads...definitely a normal mid-July day.

Down to the creek woods I went, not needing boots at all, and though it was hot and humid and nearly still, it was also beautiful.  Clear water in the south swamp overflow; clear water ( Read more... )

flowers, wildlife, odonates, bird behavior

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filkferengi July 20 2007, 19:46:57 UTC
I love reading your updates; you write so well of your local place. It makes our walks at the local nature center much livelier, knowing some of what to look for.

As you're so tuned-in to place, you might enjoy http://susanalbert.typepad.com/what_wildness_is_this/, the blog for _What Wildness Is This_, a book by women writing about the southwest. Susan Wittig Albert [blog here--http://susanalbert.typepad.com/lifescapes/] is one of the authors. She posts really cool critter & flower pictures too.

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e_moon60 July 20 2007, 21:12:10 UTC
I can recommend some reference books (says the woman who ended up bringing five of them on this trip) if you want to delve a little deeper on your own.

For instance, I really like _Butterflies Through Binoculars_ (I have "the West" and am hoping to buy "the East" on this trip, since we're at the margin and get some eastern species where I live) and _Dragonflies Through Binoculars_. For birds, Sibley's books are superb, though they're not easy to carry in the field. For plants in general, I still use the Peterson series guides--wildflowers, trees and woody plants, plus other regional wildflower guides with more pictures. I like pictures. If you live in the south-central region, Abbot's book on dragonflies and damselflies is great--it has *all* the damselflies.

That's a lovely blog you mentioned. But(whine, whine, whine) nobody asked *me* to be part of that book! Or blog!

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filkferengi July 21 2007, 01:34:50 UTC
They probably didn't know you'd be interested. After all, dragon- & damsel-flies aren't exactly prominent in most sf. From what I've seen, they welcome comments.

Thanks for the cool recs; I like pictures too.

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e_moon60 July 21 2007, 13:58:41 UTC
Well...there's a disconnect between other writers and SF writers in general. I'm not sure how much comes from each side, but for instance: at the Texas Book Festival, genres are very much divided with the SF writers more isolated from others than others. Within writers' organizations, when you say you write SF, there's a withdrawing of skirts, so to speak. I have talked with some of these ladies at various meetings in the past...and very nice people they are, certainly...but SF is so peripheral to them (that was my feeling anyway) that they can't quite conceive that a woman writing SF has anything in common with them.

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