my August faves

As I heal from my bicycle accident injuries, I've been online more than usual.  Here are some of my favorites that have caught my attention this month:

http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2013/08/summertime-blues.html
http://dipperanch.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-fox-dines-on-jepson-manual.html
http://natureofaman.blogspot.com/2013/08/in-family-way.html
http://cameratrapcodger.blogspot.com/2013/08/denning-kit-foxes.html

Then, onto more personal items:
http://breadonthewater.blogspot.com/2013/08/every-mana-piece-of-continent.html
http://jeffputz.com/blog/the-end-of-the-beaumont-affair
http://66squarefeet.blogspot.com/2013/08/how-do-we-sleep-when-our-beds-are-not.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvzWsrS3JE
http://www.humansofnewyork.com/

For some reason from the above, the thought came to me that the next place I'd like to visit outside the USA would be Vietnam,  a place that has so much to teach us about recovering from the devastation of war in modern times.  I would also like to see the beauty of Ha Long Bay and Phong Nha-Ke Bang:

http://vietnamtourism1.blogspot.com/

biological xenophobia destructive nativism

We've gone too far!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/biological-xenophobia-the_b_3385265.html?
http://biologyrefugia.blogspot.com/2011/08/immigration-and-invasion-biological.html
http://gardenrant.com/2012/07/nativism-is-hurting-our-public-lands.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/search/label/*%20biological%20xenophobia

experiences I want to have

I'm pleased I've done a variety of things in my life, like free falling out of an airplane at 10K feet, eating live 17-year periodical cicadas during an emergence, snorkeling with parrotfish in Puerto Rico, backpacking in Alaska for 2 months, etc. I'm starting a list of things I'd still like to experience:

visiting Barcelona, Spain to see Antoni Gaudí's buildings:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/320

seeing China's rainbow mountains (Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park):
http://www.lostateminor.com/2013/08/06/rainbow-mountains-in-chinas-danxia-landform-geological-park/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/rainbow-mountains-china-danxia-landform_n_3683840.html

tapping and making real maple syrup the old fashioned way:
http://thecommonmilkweed.blogspot.com/2012/02/maple-sugaring-time-first-for-us.html
http://shootingmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-sugaring-in-new-england.html

visiting the UK to see bluebells in full bloom:
http://martinsmoths.blogspot.com/2013/06/trains-big-and-small.html
http://aeshnacaerulea.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-friday.html
http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2011/04/white-and-blue-on-grey-day.html
http://belfiebird.blogspot.com/2011/04/polesden-lacey-wiston-tea-rooms-and.html
http://kirkstallcreaturesgreatandsmall.blogspot.com/2011/04/adel-churchyard-bluebells.html
http://peplers.blogspot.com/2011/04/close-up-experience-with-adder.html
http://peplers.blogspot.com/2011/04/more-bluebells-in-wood.html
http://peplers.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-bluebell-in-woods.html
http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2011/02/niggling-mid-february-grey-days.html
http://kirkstallcreaturesgreatandsmall.blogspot.com/2010/05/beckett-park-bluebell-wander.html
http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2010/05/lancashire-bluebell-wood.html
http://aeshnacaerulea.blogspot.com/2010/05/blues-evening.html
http://aeshnacaerulea.blogspot.com/2009/05/out-of-mire.html

staying at Lake Palace in Udaipur, India:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Palace