Sunday, November 30, 2014

Visiting Spain--Wandering the Former Carthusian monastery, Valldemossa, Mallorca

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Hills of Mallorca The island of Mallorca has beautiful beaches ( earlier post ), but the hills are lovely too. In the hill town of Valld...
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

Plant Story--Chenopodium album, aka lambsquarters and fat hen

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Chenopodium album , Amaranthaceae Chenopodium album is a Eurasian plant that has established itself across most of the world. But you m...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Visiting Spain--Mallorca, palms and sunshine

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We set sail from Barcelona in Catalonia, eastern Spain, for Mallorca on a tour with Gohagan Travel  and the University of California Alumni...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Orange, oranges and carrots

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Do you remember the James Burke tv series Connections  showing surprising relationships between unrelated things? There are plant stories ...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

Visiting Scotland--A glimpse of Shetland's prehistory

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Northern Europe has absolutely marvelous archaelogical sites dating back thousands of years.  On Shetland I visited Jarlshof. Here, the b...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Visiting Scotland-- a bit of wild Shetland

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Last May I visited the Shetlands on a tour with Academic Arrangements Abroad and the Met . The northmost part of Scotland, they are beautifu...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Plant story: The amazing dioecious buffalo grass, Buchloë dactyloides

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buffalo grass, male flowers, sticking up  Buffalo grass,  Buchlo ë  dactyloides ' (or Bouteloua dactyloides ) [previous posts ...
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