Curating fills in many necessary blanks for me, so through Twitter, Facebook and G+ I micro-blog links to press releases, articles and blogs about research, discoveries and theories that link back to original sources. This provides more than enough grist for my mental mill. Here I list scitech and nature links (and links to links) on the sidebar for open-ended perusal, as curiosity tugs and full schedules permit, but I don't sense a calling to blog further.
Mainly for my own fun, entertainment and self-education, here (I wish I could write daily, but more likely it'll be weekly) I will share passing ordinary natural wonders I notice in yards around where I live during my travels, illustrated by photos I snap with my smartphone or tablet. The wildernesses I wander for brief whiles may be urban, rural, beyond or within. All existence hides and reveals wild sides.
When this grasshopper -- perhaps the American Bird Grasshopper of subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae (Bird Grasshoppers or Bird Locusts) -- hopped onto my path near the front steps I could only wonder why. Hop, hop again and back the mini-jungles in our lawn and garden it was, after that sudden, momentous photo opp.
Primarily, this is a record of wilderness moments that pop open just like that.
Update 10/22: OK, I notice nature and wilderness patches every day, but sharing through blogging gets shoved down my to-do list as I explore and notice more and as I keep freelance-working for a living. Still, keeping this journal for myself will enhance experiencing in the moment, in the long-run, I'm convinced, even if I post mostly pictures.
Also linked on this sidebar and updated occasionally, sporadically: My Freelance Wondering blog will cover science and technology research I have written up, and Freelance Wondering On will list links to projects that stirred questions (with blurts about some).
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