I wish I could take credit for this incredibly cool photo, but I can’t. The wonderful shot on the right is by D. James from Flickr. Equally excellent is the tale he tells with it; I’ll make you click through to check that out. I will say, however, that both the photo and the story strongly reminded me of Peter Whelan. Peter taught geology here at UMM for many a moon until his all-too-early death a few years ago, and he is missed as well.
In one of those happy coincidences, at around the same time I stumbled across this fine shot of stone and lichen by Imago (also on Flickr), on the left, and I think Peter Whelan would have liked it as well.
Then to round out the Peter theme, Peter Wyckoff (a biologist here at UMM) has asked if I’d be interested in helping out with some of the programming work he needs for a project looking at the effect of climate change on the prairie-forest border here in Minnesota. Oh, yeah, I’m interested. I love computer science, but I also love biology, so if I can mix them that’s definitely a happy day.
woohoo! a first…I am honoured.