Once our elected officials find themselves “inside the beltway” among the grand marble buildings that line the wide well-manicured avenues of our nation’s capital, the intoxicating effects of power and influence take hold quickly.
John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
What is Now Mundane is Truly Remarkable
On the way home from running a few errands the other day, I stopped and bought a new computer. It was only a few hours later that it suddenly dawned upon me what a truly remarkable thing I had just done.
Moby Dick, Peruvian Style
It seems that archeologists recently discovered the remains of a now extinct species of toothed whale in the Pisco-Ica Desert along the southern coast of Peru – and what a whale of a whale it was.
Butterfly Photographer’s Handbook
Of all the popular photographic subjects in nature, few can rival butterflies in terms of color, variety, and charisma; however few subjects also present the photographer with more technical challenges.