syrinx

On a wing and a selfish gene

This injured veteran stops to refuel at a mealy sage on its long journey back...one tattered wing attesting to the arduous journey across North America towards the disappearing habitat to the south. Will this specimen make it back? God only knows. Will the species survive? As long as they can find a niche in the environment and be the best fit for it through adaptation and natural selection and the process of evolution, they will survive, whether or not there is a God, damn it!

tags: monarch migration 2008

If you want to see it live, looks like you need to head to north Canada, or China, or somewhere close to the North Pole...wear your galoshes.

Read the news at National Geographic. They'll probably have some g

tags: solar 2008 eclipse august 1

boss ton of red phlox

'pun my word, it's a bokay of Drummond's Phlox, bursting with redness.
Native wildflower, and it sure looks just as pretty as all those chain store floozies down at the lowe class hoe depot mart. so there.

tags: wildflowers spring photo texas native 2008

monarch and the mexican plum

better luck today although it was windy
23 march 08

tags: spring butterflies monarch trees texas migration mexican plum native 2008

Butterflies gone wild!!!

Spring break shenanigans apparently are not limited to college co-eds.
- put out some fruit, etc. on its way to the compost as a butterfly lure, but these two flew by locked in tandem and settled for a few moments on this branch before heading off again. This time I had the camera ready. Unfortunately didn't have the presence of mind to select a backlighting setting, so had to do the best I could with the software adjustments to bring out the shadows.

tags: spring humor monarch photography migration 2008 mating biology