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A Chorus of One

July 16, 2010 Bay Area Faves

The best things happen in your periphery. It’s the reason I had the astigmatism correction removed from my glasses. The contrast between my sharp, corrected vision — and the blur in my periphery made me chronically queasy. That’s a lousy lede — and I’m too tired to come up with a better one. But workable [...]

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The Great Newt Commute

February 8, 2010 Bay Area

The Great Newt Commute is what happens on the way to the Great Newt Party. From the first winter rains through early spring, California Newts migrate from their summer homes to their winter breeding grounds — to ponds and streams where they mate and lay eggs before trundling back up the hills and into burrows [...]

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Return to the Mother Ship

July 18, 2009 Bay Area

This honey bee was one of a stream of honey bees, hypnotized into the maw of this cactus flower.

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Life Beneath a Water Lily

July 15, 2009 Reptiles & Amphibians

A water lily leaf in its imperfection . . . its asymmetry . . . its blemishes . . . the leaf detritus and pebbles collected at its core. In the family Nymphaeaceae, this — one of many species of water lilies — lives in the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. Its underwater stems provide cover [...]

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