On the last Saturday of June 2019, I found my way to L.L. Stub Stewart State Park off Oregon Highway 47 to meet up with some very nice folks from the Rose City Astronomers and a small group of also very nice beginning amateur astronomers – among the latter of whom I count myself. For […]
With yet another business trip rapidly approaching – this time to a new destination for me: Hong Kong – I found myself a bit flat-footed as to proper preparation. Not what clothes and such to pack, of course; rather what natural history guides to obtain to get an understanding of what I might see while […]
My dear Galileo,
After many years of observing and investigating things on the Earth, I have taken it into my mind also now to begin looking at the heavens to learn what is to be seen there as well. As I am but a novice in this, I knew I must find a teacher. I hope you will not mind if I look to you and your discoveries as such.
Unlike James Taylor, I will soon be going to California not only in my mind but in an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737. I’ll be there for a week to attend to some business for Celestron in Los Angeles and to speak at the San Diego Bird Festival. Thus in keeping with my preferred practice of taking along a book or two with relevance to my destination, I’m planning to pack copies of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of California by Alvaro Jaramillo and the recently published third edition of Insects of the L.A. Basin by Charles L. Hogue and James N. Hogue in my shoulder bag.