There has been so little time to get out and spend time at my lake... Brat has things scheduled EVERY DAY after school lately, with the end of the school year approaching, and it's starting to wear me out, since I have to do most of the driving. But today was an amazingly perfect sunny bright wonderful day, so I went out to the lake ( Read more... )

I am very happy ( Read more... )

Not much happening this early in the year, but I still need to get out, if I can... not to see what's already there, but to look at where things WILL be... to watch eagerly for those familiar things to start appearing. I know where they will be now, like trains that always arrive at the same station at a certain time. I wait for the trout lilies ( Read more... )

Fall is finally arriving in all its red and golden glory. We've had some very chilly nights but no frost yet, which is a bit unusual. There are a lot of green leaves left on the trees, but a few hard frosts will change that ( Read more... )

Fall isn't quite here yet, even with the colder nights... the trees are holding onto summer as long as they possibly can. I don't know why I'm so hungry for the colors and sounds of fall this year, because fall means winter and winter's lockdown on the Great Lakes is relentless and harsh, but I am desperately craving the flares of orange and red ( Read more... )

Enjoyed my day off today... I have no idea what randomness caused me to have a Sunday off, because I ALWAYS work Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday, but I did. I took a nice long walk this morning, until it got unreasonably hot, and then came back here, studied, took (not very successfully) my biostats quiz, studied, took a nap, studied... and now my ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a short work day (5:00PM to 11:00PM) so I had some time earlier in the day to sneak out for a walk (should have been doing school work, but walks are important... Counselor Guy even said so). Besides, ANOVA (computerized analysis of variance, in which you compare the variance between samples with the variance within samples to decide ( Read more... )

I've been trying to get outside whenever I get a chance, although it seems like work exhausts me and then I sleep and then I wake up and have just enough time to do school stuff before I have to go back to work... but it's all going along. Today was the first of three glorious days off... well, I have classes all three days, but not work, and I ( Read more... )

Not much in the way of fungi today. Actually, these pictures are from two different walks... a short one near the lake and a longer one out on the other trail I go to occasionally. I find some interesting things there because it's a totally different ecosystem... lots of temporary water sources that are dried up by this time of year, different ( Read more... )

Finished enough of my class work to take a nice well-deserved break and go walking in the beautiful, breezy sunshine today! It was a lovely day and the wind kept the bugs away, and I did all my class work and I mowed the lawn, so I felt like I could properly enjoy my relaxation time ( Read more... )