Air's Wild Acres
Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.
Category: Travel
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Patterns and pastures.
In the recent weeks, I passed my comprehensive exam, visited with a fantastic Carabidae specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (another #loveyourtaxonomist post is likely to follow about this trip), and camped at one of the most beautiful places in PA (“It feels like we are hiking into ‘The Hobbit!’” said a young hiker…
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Agonum in the woods!
I’ve been super busy trying to finish up one project (CIMMYT) while learning R, identifying all those samples from PA, and teaching. But, one of my dear friends is leaving town soon, and the weather is FINALLY nice enough to spend a decent amount of time outside. So, we went up to Ricketts Glen yesterday to…
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“If you got a tattoo of an insect…
… what would it be?” one of my friends recently asked me (who, has a tattoo of a green lacewing). In the few days prior to that, I had spent some time working with an ant taxonomist at the University of Guadalajara (Dr. Miguel Vasquez Bolaños), and had commented that he was so dedicated to…
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Inspiration
A conversation I just had with a 41 year old coworker: Me: Where did you meet your wife? Him: In Tierra del Fuego Me: Aww! That’s one of the places my Grampa rode his motorcycle to. Him (with much enthusiasm): REALLY?!? I would have LOVED to do something like that! Me: He was 65 when…
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Exploring Texcoco de Mora.
CIMMYT is located about 5 km from the town of Texcoco de Mora, which is roughly 25 kilometers north and east of Mexico City. Apparently, Texcoco was once a major Aztec city, located on a former lake of the same name. There are several archaeological sites nearby, although I’m told that the town itself does…
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Panama 2012
ITEC Students Todd Cline, Margie Tomann, myself, and Kevin McLean in Bocas del Toro, Panama
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