Queen Anne’s Lace (c) 2009 Patty Hankins
Here are some posts and articles that I enjoyed this week; I hope you enjoy them as well
National Park and National Wildlife Refuge Links
National Parks Traveler has NPS Academy, Alternative Spring Break Bringing Youth To National Parks, Teaching Park Politics In Yellowstone National Park, Sequestration Cuts Push Back Yellowstone National Park’s Spring Opening, Rebuilding After Sandy: How Assateague Island National Seashore Officials Are Dealing With Climate Change and Congressman From North Carolina Wants To Overturn Cape Hatteras National Seashore Access Regs.
Refuge Watch has Sequestration and the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Wildlife Links
New York Times has From Elephants’ Mouths, an Illicit Trail to China.
NPR has Wild Bees Are Good For Crops, But Crops Are Bad For Bees.
Mother Jones has “Promiscuous” Bees and Vanishing Insects Mean Less Food for Us.
National Geographics has Help Decelerate Polar Bears’ Rapid Decline.
Environmental Issues Links
Live Bravely Outside has YOSEMITE’S LYELL GLACIER STOPS MOVING.
Mother Jones has NASA Scientists Are Turning LA Into One Big Climate-Change Lab.
Christian Science Monitor has Will ships sail through the North Pole by 2050?
Photography and Art Links
National Park Traveler has Frank Jay Haynes, A Photography Pioneer In Yellowstone National Park.
Digital Photography School has OPINION: Why Photoshop is Ruining Landscape Photography.
The Copyright Zone has You Gotta Be Kidding Me.
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, March 17th at Longwood Gardens in Bethesda,MD. The Orchid Extravaganza at Longwood Gardens is always amazing. It’s one of my favorite times of the year to visit Longwood.
Info is at http://www.longwoodgardens.org/OrchidExtravaganza.html
Plan for this meetup is to meet at 6:30 AM at the Grosvenor Metro Station. Then we can carpool to Longwood. It takes just over 2 hours to get there. My suggestion would be that we plan on photographing in the Conservatory in the morning – then meet for lunch at 11:30 in the restaurant. After that – depending on what people what to do – either keep shooting – or head on back.
Garden admission is $18. You can purchase a ticket online at or you can get one when we get there. I doubt there will be problems getting tickets at the door on a Sunday morning for Orchid Extravaganza. But if you want to make sure you get one – go ahead and purchase a an entry ticket for 9 AM on March 17th.