Doing what one does in isolation

2021
The Year in Images

Buddha exhibits covid equanimity

 
"Spring on the Hudson," by Gifford Beal
a bequest from my aunt
FAMILY

 at the local Japanese garden with Libbie

nephew Isaiah & partner Sarah, vinegar wizards in Harrisburg

Marjorie Rachlin (1922-2021) [my aunt]

--I edited her short memoir,
 Life in Bloom
STILL WRITING

 "The Ecology of Meat" -- promoting more climate change awareness (ABT, Nov.)

 "Why Playtpuses Fluoresce, or Why Darwin Did Not Believe in 'Evolution'"
foray into teleological assumptions (ABT, Nov.)
 "The Facts of Science & the Values of Social Justice" (ABT, March)
 presentation

 "Who Speaks for Science?" -- credibility & expertise (Science & Education)
 presentation

 "How We Think about Human Nature: Cognitive Errors and Concrete Remedies" (w/ Alex Werth) -- more on the Naturalizing Error
NATURE ADVENTURES AT HOME

Turkeys on the grass, alas. Turkey on the grass.

Ice fog, condensing on trees

Monster dragonfly

Nesting wrens--2 chicks
AT HOME, GARDENING

The labor of converting lawn to garden, and clay to soil

Rescue-plants: Jack in the pulpits saved from the path of a new paved trail

New catmint & wild geraniums take root

Glorious, happy foxglove

The emerging Japanese garden takes shape
THE JOY OF LANSCAPE COLOR

Spring redbud

New poppies luxuriate.

Goldstrum returns

Late summer coneflower

Euonymous aflame in the fall.
AT HOME, CULINARY ADVENTURES & EATING WELL (continued from 2020)

Summer favorite:
 Farro salad, with lime-shallot vinagrette ... and tomato-pomegranate salad

 Soba noodles w/ mango & eggplant

Sourdough cheese bread

Pizza -- all about appearance

This year's holiday favorite: cranberry-orange-rosemary cookies.
THE YEAR PASSES AT HOME

The Easter Platypus returns...

...hiding cleverly camouflaged jelly beans (click to view)
New glass orbs by Josh Simpson grace the desk windowsill
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Stay tuned for:

  • more chapters of To Err is Science
  • The Vaccine Skeptics of 1721 (ABT, Jan. 2022)
  • Cannus stannous -- a lab for understanding evolution without teleology (ABT, Feb., 2022)