Mae Travels

Here's a perfectly nice map of the Matthaei Botanical Garden near the point where you enter the woods. Note that West (Dixboro Road)...

In the woods at Matthaei Botanical Gardens this afternoon it was very quiet. The fall colors have become very subdued. Only a few other p...

Len's photo of a screech owl named Roger, from this morning. This link to Flickr allows you to see all his recent nature photos.

We recently traveled to Fairfax, Cape May, Philadelphia, and Lancaster, PA. One highlight was visiting Longwood Gardens with Arny and Trac...

Bald Eagle on the beach at Cape May. Heron fishing at Lake Lily near the lighthouse. Lake Lily, gallinule From the Ferry be...

Sunset on the first of our several guided birdwalks in Cape May, NJ. It's the season for bird migration here, and therefore birder se...

"Murder at Mt. Fuji" by Shizuko Natsuki is an extremely well-plotted detective story with a surprise ending. If you think about ...

I love to read detective fiction, and I've been looking recently for good lists of writers that I haven't read yet. One theme I love...

View of the accommodation block at Drancy with French gendarme on guard -- from Wikipedia article "Drancy internment camp. " ...

The Red Gate of Tokyo University, not far from the campus guest house where we stayed in 2011. The Wild Geese,  a short novel by Ogai ...

Ibrahim, seller of West and Central African Art Mr. B's always popular piano music, which travels on a special bicycle cart...

Coral mushrooms growing on the path. Summer in Michigan: We tried a bird walk this morning, but all we saw were two robins and thousands...