Animals

2008-07-24T11:42:00.001-07:00

Today I saw a strange bug on the ceiling...I wonder if it might be a stonefly. Here is a picture:

And here is a picture of our five tetra fish in our aquarium:

:)

Horned Larks, Blue-eyed Grass, Wine Cup

2008-06-01T20:37:00.000-07:00

Hola again =)

I realized that my website doesn't really work on internet explorer, or at least, there are strange html things everywhere... I wish I was better with html. It does seem to work in firefox though, and firefox >>> internet explorer.

I wanted to tell you about a bird I saw a few days ago next to an airport landing strip. It is called a Horned Lark, Eremophila alpestris. There were two of them, a male and a female. =) They are really beautiful. I took pictures of them, of some flowers I saw, and also of myself in an airplane with my dad. =)

For identification of the flowers and the birds I used the National Audubon Society Sibley Guide to Birds, by David Allen Sibley, and Oklahoma Wildflowers, by David McCoy (1987). Both of these books are really great. =)

The pictures are what happens when I have no more chemistry psets to do. ;)

Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
<-- Here is the male.

Below is a photo of the male with the female.

I think these blueish flowers are Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium campestre.

I think this is a Wine Cup flower, Callirhoe involucrata.

Hola =)

2008-06-01T16:25:00.000-07:00

I decided that my website needed a blog...and that maybe that would convince me to update it more often. ;) So this is my first post. In my blog I am liable to write about chemistry, MIT, birds, languages, spectra, etc. etc.... =)

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Animals

Horned Larks, Blue-eyed Grass, Wine Cup

Hola =)