From 2006, taken from a balloon adrift over Cappadocia, in central Turkey. The terrain in Cappadocia is spectacular and craggy, featuring “fairy chimneys,” hoodoo spires, cliffs, hidden valleys, and signs of habitation going back thousands of years. The closest analog I’ve seen to this country are parts of the Colorado Plateau, like the Cedar Breaks— […]

Moonrise at the Bernardo Refuge. Just tonight. And a little closeup of Earth’s satellite.

A tiny crab snuggles into its home in an anemone. I never owned a camera capable of taking this kind of picture, so I suspect this was taken by Atti, one of our group. Sulawesi, 2013.

When we were in New York State in October, we spent half a day cruising around Ithaca, viewing Kathy’s alma mater of Cornell. We didn’t see much, because pouring rain pretty much confined us to our car. But there was one exhibit I really wanted to see, which was for some reason stuck in a […]