DaVinci Poinsettia (c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week; I hope you enjoy them as well

Flower and Plant Links

Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens has Revising the 12 Days of Christmas

National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links

Refuge Watch has Defenders of Wildlife: Sea-Level Rise at National Wildlife Refuges

National Parks Traveler has More Than Five Tons Of Elk Meat Donated To Needy Through Theodore Roosevelt National Park’s Elk Reduction Program and Congress Asked To Approve Supplemental Appropriation Of $400 Million For National Parks To Recover From Sandy

Wildlife Links

Slate has Why White Tigers Should Go Extinct

NBC News has Video of rare tiger cubs proves breeding in Sumatran forest

National Geographics has Lion Numbers Plunge as African Wilderness Succumbs to Human Pressure

Free Roaming Photography has Why America Needs More Predators

Environmental Issues Links

The Washington Post has Will the West ever solve its water woes?

Mother Jones has Are Your Kids’ Books Killing Tigers?

Journal Sentinel Online has Chicago River has become invasive species super highway

Huffington Post has Diverting the Missouri River to the West: ‘Can’ Does Not Mean ‘Should’

BBC News has Invasive insects changing Antarctic landscape

The New York Times has Scientists See Promise for People and Nature in ‘Peak Farmland’

Photography and Art Links

Light Space & Time has The Best Times for Artists to Post to Social Media

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has Creative Commons Licensing

Borrowlenses.com has 2012 Mayan Apocalypse Photo Tips

Slate has The Best Astronomy Images of 2012

DC Area Flower Safari

If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next Meetup is scheduled for Sunday, January 27th at my house in Bethesda,MD. This will be a casual get together from 2-5pm. If you’ve got some favorite flower or garden photos you’ve taken – please bring no more than 5  and a snack to share with everyone.  I hope to see you there!