fun asides

Quotes about learning and science

Becoming a systematic botanist

Mark Makes Pottery

Mark Makes Mobiles

Inspiration for travels: Mud in Madagascar

These 26 photos, which are in chronological order, show how I spent 18 January 2007.  This was an exciting day for me--unlike any I had previously experienced.  In later years I had similar excitement in Ethiopia and Kenya, which were my inspiration for a “Mud in…” series.  But the “Deadliest Roads” series on YouTube has already done this better than I could. 

Time capsules

These are time capsules that I made after five major events in my life.  I call them time capsules because they incorporate items and photos from those events and because they are designed to evoke my memory of those events when I see them.  The square frames are 61 cm wide.  In some cases names and contact information are covered by a blue marker in the photos.

Alebrijes and figurines from Oaxaca, Mexico

Everything changes, and nothing is more vulnerable than the beautiful.

-- Edward Abbey, Down the River