Monday June 6, 2005
Speaking of Sun...

Looks like a good week for sun watching (with the proper equipment, of course). A couple of large sunspots are now visible along with the the three or four already in sight. Who knows, may even see Aurora activity out of this?



Sundew Carnivorous Plant

Look what we found on the walk home from work the other day! It's a carnivorous plant called Sundew, or Drosera rotundifolia. The plant is about three inches in diameter and barely over two inches tall.

On memorial day we drove up to see Chickering Bog in Northern Vermont. I was hoping to photograph some of these Sundews and pitcher plants but it was pretty early in the season and we only saw pitcher plants.

There are people who make their own bogs, some with rather interesting plant life. I'd been thinking of adding a little wetlands area to our pond, maybe a bog is in our future?


Pedraum • 2005-06-06 11:50pm

In my college days the verb, bogging, meant to procrastinate heavily for days on end.

"Dude, what's Eric up to?"
"Whaddya think dude? Bogging."
"Dude, what a bogger!"