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In early December, I headed to San Francisco for the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.  While most of my time was spent at the conference, I did find time to catch up with friends who live far away and see some of the sights of San Francisco.

I traveled to the Phoenix area to help facilitate a teacher workshop about the Moon last month. I stayed with a couple of awesome friends of mine from grad school (hi Beck and Thijs!) for a few days before the workshop. They have a fabulous pool that we spent the hot summer nights relaxing in, [...]

When my friend Sam and I were in Austin, she wanted to go on a bat boat tour on the lake. We got there early to make sure to get a good seat and had some time to kill, so we wandered around on the hike and bike trail. It’s a nice trail right by [...]

The US Botanic Garden is spectacular, even in winter. I got to stop by for a couple of house in February and could have spent all day looking at and taking pictures of all of the gorgeous plants. Below are some of my favorites.

Between walking around town and going to the farmers’ market, I got a bunch of pictures of plants in San Francisco.  My favorites were the orchids at the market; they had some amazing textures.  One reminded me of a humpback whale with its hairs and bumpiness!

A few weeks ago, my group at work had an advance (because we never retreat!) at the Armand Bayou Nature Center.  I had a few spare minutes coming back from lunch and then when leaving for the day to grab a couple of pictures.

We had some spare time in Arizona so we spent a few hours at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.  They had a monarch butterfly exhibit, and I got some pictures of all the cactus and desert plants.

In my living room over my couch I have a picture wall with a dozen 8×10 pictures.  Previously, they had been all in color, but we decided to get a new set of different pictures printed in black and white.  They look so much better!  The color ones were nice but all of them in [...]

Em and I went to the Mercer Botanical Gardens in Spring (northwest of Houston) a couple of weeks ago and I got some nice pictures of plants, bugs, and a lizard!

Sara looking like a movie star at the Botanical Gardens tiny plants growing inside a bigger plant Sara on the grounds of the Alamo baby duck at the Riverwalk