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Canvas 3 Jun 2013 | 01:53 am
Sometimes what’s most striking in nature is so commonplace that we ignore it, or forget it’s there. A gull, a flower - clean slates of spring. Blanched wing and milky petal, waiting for the sun, the r...
Of This Earth 20 May 2013 | 04:15 am
Just like helicopters mimic dragonflies, the plow is a modern variation of the earthworm. (So much in nature goes on above our heads, and below our feet.) With their digging and digesting, earthworms ...
First Flowers 12 May 2013 | 08:09 pm
Some flowers exhibit early, like the blossoms of a pin cherry tree. It’s a short-lived, sun-loving, stone-fruit tree that looks more like a shrub. The fruit is sour and the wood not commercially viabl...
Fuzzy Strategies 6 May 2013 | 03:09 am
This is a Woolly Bear caterpillar, recently awakened from its frozen state by a warm, spring breeze. The thick bristles are called setae. Someday this crawler will grow wings and fly as an Isabella Ti...
Tree Rings 9 Dec 2012 | 09:10 pm
In winter, there is only bark to see. Between soil and sky are tree trunks. Tree trunks after tree trunks. Dull from afar, more interesting close up. Victor, out for a walk, thinks the trees seem spen...
Seed Seeking 14 Oct 2012 | 09:48 pm
Strange how so many living things just choose to stay put and apathetically accept the terrible events of their time. Like plants, for example. Their plan of inaction consists of languid sun-bathing a...
Thoughts About Wasps 6 Sep 2012 | 04:50 am
Wasps are insect machines, flaunting their warning colours like caution tape. I note them surrounding a patch of flowers in a road ditch, taking long sips of nectar. Thankfully, they are distracted by...
What Now Exists 31 Jul 2012 | 09:53 am
Back in March, a representative of Science Centre Singapore e-mailed to ask if he could use text from one of my blog posts for a mini-exhibition. This was the post that asked, “What kind of animal car...
Sweet Canvas of Ditchy Art 3 Jul 2012 | 03:13 am
Flowers are crazily taking turns rising in the ditches, presenting their foxy durability, craving attention, attracting bugs with packets of sugar, and laughing in the faces of humans who dare dismiss...
Six-Legged Paradise 4 Jun 2012 | 05:33 am
When it comes to biology, I am a child, admiring what is most alien-like, namely insects. Magnify insects, and you will see mandibles feeding like machines, ears in the weirdest places, antennae despe...
