It’s funny how much I love high places, from the canopy walkway in the Amazon to the Canopy Tower Lodge in Gamboa (more on that terrific place in my next post) to the wondrous canopy tower of BCI’s Lutz ravine, where I spent most of yesterday improbably clinging to a 157 foot tall swaying scaffold [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Farewell, My Lovely Island
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Drawing, Environment, Nature, field sketching, plein air, rainforest, travel, tropics on May 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The View From The Field
Posted in Adventure!, Art, Environment, Nature, Panama, Science, Sketching, Wildlife, birding, field sketching, plein air, rainforest, travel, tropics on May 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
You know you’re at a tropical field station when a live baby gecko plays hide and seek under the plates at the dinner table to exclamations of delight, and the dinner conversation turns to spider monkey aggression and vine snakes eating antbirds. It’s a fine place to hang out and learn, either in the forest [...]
The Ant Man Bloggeth
Posted in Adventure!, Environment, Evolution, Nature, Panama, Science, Stupid Critter Tricks, rainforest, teaching, tropics on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
New blog alert! Mike the Ant Man has just revived the “Ant Lab in Panama” blog, with all new students, and all new experiments to ooh and aah over. Take a look into the arcane and wondrous world of the tropical ant scientist. It’s not all digging in the dirt anymore, folks!
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Exhibition: Drawing the Motmot; An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature
October 10-January 18 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Click on the picture for a link to the Museum!
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Nominated for Two Awards!
Just reissued and now available on CDBaby.com! The band from the Motmot’s banjo pickin’ days!
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