Carl Sams and Jean Stoick stand near the”Blue Ice Rock” in the Huron Mountains in Michigan’s upper peninsula. Every year ice on this rock turns blue where most other rock outcroppings the ice is yellow. Snowmobilers come from miles away to see this unusual display of ice. Does anyone know why this ice turns blue? [...]
Kids outdoors: Children are natural scientists Children are natural scientists, according to an article I discovered online. When kids get outdoors in nature, they are questioning, comparing and observing, all things that improve brain development. The “Our Day Outside” event at Placer Nature Center in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills sounds wonderful. It could be a program replicated [...]
Yesterday I decided to move a bird feeder over to our blossoming magnolia tree. Only a few birds came in but I was lucky enough to capture this image of a chickadee looking for places to hide seeds. (taken with Canon 5D Mark II with 100-400 canon zoom lens at 1/1250 of a sec at [...]
