Nature
grrlscientist | April 29, 2009tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Violet in the Park Avenue median, Manhattan.
"In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
sb admin | April 29, 2009[This is a repost from the Myrmecos Blog, originally published February 2008]
In 1934, a diminutive book by an unknown author seeded the largest conservation movement in history. The book, Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to the Birds, pioneered the modern field guide format with crisp illustrations of diagnostic characters, all in a pocket-sized read. The Guide sold out in a week, but the book's effects are ongoing.
To understand the magnitude of Peterson's impact, consider how naturalists traditionally identified birds. They'd take a shotgun into the field, and if they saw something…
grrlscientist | April 28, 2009tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Park Avenue Tulip.
"In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 27, 2009tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Cherry Blossoms.
"In the lower 80s" in the Park Avenue median (Upper East Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 26, 2009tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Median.
83rd and Park Avenue (Upper East Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 26 April 2009 [larger view].
In the wee hours of Saturday, the temperature was somewhere close to 38 degrees Fahrenheit at my apartment, then, hours later, it reached 88 degrees -- a 50 degree difference! Today, it is predicted to reach 90 degrees in Manhattan, so I had to celebrate by roaming around the Park Avenue median on the Upper East Side, photographing the blossoms.
grrlscientist | April 25, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Rose.
83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
-- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
grrlscientist | April 24, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Rose.
83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
-- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
grrlscientist | April 23, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Dahlias.
83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan).
Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 22, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis.
124th and Broadway (Harlem) in Manhattan.
Image: GrrlScientist, 21 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 22, 2009tags: Earth Day, earth-friendly resolutions, meme, environment, nature
Mike at Questionable Authority has started a new meme in honor of Earth Day, listing our Earth Day Resolutions. Even though he's being a big dork by not tagging me with this meme, I have decided to contribute anyway. (I have to live up to my "pushy New Yorker" description since I am a Seattle transplant with something to prove.) Because I live in an apartment in Manhattan and my backyard consists solely of a shaded fire escape that is four floors above a concrete sidewalk, I thought my resolutions might be interesting…
grrlscientist | April 21, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus.
124th and Broadway (Harlem) in Manhattan.
Image: GrrlScientist, 21 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 20, 2009tags: Scientia Pro Publica, Science for the People, biology, evolution, medicine, earth science, behavioral ecology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, blog carnival
Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.
This is only the second issue of Scientia Pro Publica, but I am so pleased with its progress so far. Not only are friends and colleagues contributing their essays to this blog carnival, but there is an impressive influx of "new blood", too. Together, all of us are helping to promote the value of…
grrlscientist | April 20, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
A friendly face in Manhattan.
West 79th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway Aves; UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 19 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 19, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Springtime in Manhattan.
West 78th Street and Columbus Ave, looking west towards Amsterdam and Broadway Aves; UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 12 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 17, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Tulip Blossom, UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 16, 2009tags: Lost, nature, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
This is the view from the view from the bus stop
where I became temporarily lost, outside Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 6 March 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 13, 2009tags: Lantinen Pukkisaari, nature, Helsinki, Finland, image of the day
Lantinen Pukkisaari.
Walking on the Water on Lantinen Pukkisaari near Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 22 February 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 12, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
grrlscientist | April 11, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day
Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
When the camera shutter clicked to get this picture, I thought of the impressive body of work produced by one of my favorite painters, Henri Fantin-Latour.
grrlscientist | April 10, 2009tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature
Flowers, photographed on the UWS, Manhattan, NYC.
Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].