Ipi’s Flowers

Ipi, I know you enjoy posting pictures of flowers and gardens. I think you will enjoy the below set of pictures of your flowers and gardens that I have taken over the last few years.  Enjoy!

Coffee Farm Fauna, Lago de Coatepeque, El Salvador

A fearless and rather photogenic arthropod, eager to pose. This little critter loves coffee just as much as I do: the giant red-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata ). A common pest on coffee farms in the Americas, the stripes of black and yellow of this juvenile will disappear after several molts and will …

El Zonte, El Salvador

A couple recently traveled to and blogged about visiting El Salvador, and El Zonte in particular. Their website, Hop on the Good Foot, has some wonderful pictures of many of the places one should visit when in El Salvador (Santa Ana, Suchitoto, Juayúa for example). One of my favorite pictures that Olwen and Rich …

One of my favorite podcasts

I enjoy listening to podcasts, mainly from the BBC, NPR, TWiT, and WAMU. Topics range from Aviation to History to, Science and Technology. By far one of my favorite podcasts is based on the 2010 BBC Radio 4 series “A History of the World in 100 Objects.” I believe someone …