stinky stapelias and other rotten smelling flowers

http://www.therainforestgarden.com/2011/10/absolutely-true-tale-of-evil-carrion.html
http://bugyou.blogspot.com/2011/10/some-flowers-for-october-part-1.html
http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2011/10/stapeliad-by-any-other-name-would-smell.html
http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2011/10/14/october-bloom-day/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nativeorchids/5865785534/in/photostream/

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

http://jeffputz.com/blog/insanely-great
http://biobabbler.blogspot.com/2011/10/okay-that-was-weird-steve-jobs-dies-i.html
http://birdsfod.blogspot.com/2011/10/green-woodpecker-forest-of-dean_06.html
http://myrmecos.net/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-1955-2011-stay-hungry-stay-foolish/
http://hiramtom.blogspot.com/2011/10/rip-steve-jobs.html
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/isad/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2011/10/07/how-to-stay-hungry-stay-foolish-fixing-steve-jobs-commencement-advice/

fungus amongus, part 2

It seems early to me, but our fungal friends (and their inhabitants) are already appearing. To see part 1 from this past January, click here.

http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/10/orange-fungi.html
http://squirrelsview.blogspot.com/2011/10/m-is-for-colorful-and-odd-shaped.html
http://www.fungiphilia.com/2011/10/yellow-parasol-leucocoprinus-birnbaumii.html
http://www.fungiphilia.com/2011/10/painted-bolete-suillus-pictus.html
http://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/stinkhorns/
http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com/2011/09/are-you-seeing-amanitas.html
http://bugtracks.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/life-on-a-bolete/
http://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/?p=1676
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/09/coral-fungi.html
http://shootingmyuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/forest-floor.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/09/giant-puffball.html

autumnal equinox

http://natureid.blogspot.com/2011/09/bull-thistle-091711-wilder-ranch.html
http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/09/equinoctial-bliss.html
http://matthewwills.com/2011/09/23/autumn-begins/
http://hiramtom.blogspot.com/2011/09/its-autumn.html
http://flowerhillfarm.blogspot.com/2011/09/autumn-equinox-jewels.html

cool animal posts that caught my attention on the blogosphere

Instead of my usual non-descriptive animals I don't see everyday, I thought I'd start a new string. Here's what caught my attention this week:

http://www.walkthewilderness.net/2011/09/jackals-feasting-on-chital-carcass.html
http://natureofaman.blogspot.com/2011/09/always-put-collars-on-your-kitties.html
http://insearchofnature.blogspot.com/2011/09/macro-inverts.html

holding the moon

When I first saw the idea on Julie's blog of photographing the moon in such a way that it looks like one is holding it, I thought "cool!" Allison at this gallimaufry life did a great job at it.

http://gallimaufrylife.blogspot.com/2011/09/have-you-ever-caught-moon.html
http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com/2010/09/pawpaw-festival_23.html

blue eyes

http://beyondmygarden.blogspot.com/2011/09/blue-eyed-invader.html
http://cabinetofcuriosities-greenfingers.blogspot.com/2011/09/bright-eyes.html

stone Buddhas not in the snow

For the title see my original post.

http://tmousecmouse.blogspot.com/2011/09/picture-this-competition-sage-buddha.html

bull moose and elk

http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/10/tomales-point.html
http://carinbondar.com/2011/09/wanted-ecologist-must-love-moose/
http://jimcoda.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/bull-tule-elk-during-the-rut/
http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/09/bull-doggin.html
http://blog.patulrichphotography.com/2011/09/pair-of-moose-grand-teton-national-park.html
http://wildinidaho.blogspot.com/2011/09/lot-of-bull.html

Indian pipes and related

Monotropa spp.

http://phyteclub.org/2011/08/24/indian-pipe-not-for-smoking/
http://getyourbotanyon.blogspot.com/2011/08/monotropa-hypopithys-pinesap.html

unusual caterpillars

http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef003.asp
http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2011/09/imperial-moth-caterpillar.html
http://bugsafari.blogspot.com/2011/09/sulphur-cats.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/09/flannel-moth-caterpillar.html
http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2011/09/paddle-cat.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/09/unexpected-tiger-moth.html
http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2011/08/spun-glass-slug.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/08/stinging-rose-caterpillars.html
http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-very-cool-cats.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-slug.html
http://thecommonmilkweed.blogspot.com/2011/09/another-great-find-imperial-moth.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2010/08/hawthorn-cedar-rust-follow-up.html

links I like

I'm moving this from my sidebar to a post entry. These are not necessarily blog posts and the links are too long to show the addresses.

• Rube Goldberg music video
• t-shirt stop motion
• hands free driving
• if historical events had facebook statuses
• Sigh.
• spidey-worthy webs from packing tape
• The Photographic Periodic Table
• The Stray Shopping Cart Project
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• Monterey is a runner friendly community.
• The Unseen Sea
  

BS, MS, PhD, and beyond

Simply contemplating. Am not up for writing about my academic life story here, how I came to the decisions I did, nor how I may change my mind. This is somewhat a follow-up to my women is science list o' links, part 1 and part 2.

what started my looking back through blogs, Chris at The Skeptical Moth's post:
http://skepticalmoth.southernfriedscience.com/2011/08/women-in-science/

a nice series of what it means to go on to get a graduate degree, Bug Girl's Blog:
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/how-undergraduate-and-graduate-school-are-different/
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-phd-question/
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/did-the-phd-kill-the-masters-degree/
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/choosing-a-graduate-program-and-advisor/
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/academia-is-a-cult/

BugGirl's links:
http://www.phd-survey.org/advice/advice.htm
http://depts.washington.edu/envision/phd/obtaining_phd/program_questions.html
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771.full
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2008_02_15/caredit_a0800025
http://blog.biodata.com/2011/06/26/why-your-mentor-sucks-and-how-to-fix-it/

Personal grad school experience from TGIQ at Fall to Climb:
http://thebuggeek.com/2012/03/05/undergraduate-advising/
http://falltoclimb.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/2354/

Where does a woman go from there:
(an excellent discussion) http://scienceblogs.com/myrmecos/2010/04/what_happens_to_women_in_acade.php
http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/2010/04/21/when-you-have-seen-one-ant-one-blog-one-tree-you-have-not-seen-them-all/
(for comments) http://scienceblogs.com/myrmecos/2010/04/the_phylogeny_of_bug_blogging.php#comments
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2008/07/03/the-chicken-the-egg-the-woman-in-science/
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/23/graduate-harvard-students-childcare/

white versions

http://georgeruns.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/albinoes/
http://natureid.blogspot.com/search/label/*%20%20white%20versions

wildfires

I thought about collecting Hurricane Irene, but those have usually been post series for every blogger who's been affected. It would be an incredibly long list. Instead, I'll virtually collect another natural occurrence: wildfire. I suspect I'll be adding to this. A little trivia about me - I left a "dream" job after one month, because I realized no job is ever worth dying in a wildfire. They are hella scary!

http://gowestferalwoman.blogspot.com/2011/09/and-all-is-okay-in-our-part-of-world.html
http://deborahsmall.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/fire-season-from-front-porch/
http://biobabbler.blogspot.com/2011/08/heli-bellies-motor-fire-flame-add-yes.html
http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/argyle-fire/

recommended ID books and sites, part 2

Click here to see part 1.

http://natureid.blogspot.com/2012/05/hairy-pink-052812-fort-ord.html
http://natureid.blogspot.com/2011/06/valley-garter-snake-061011-pinnacles.html
http://www.birdsonthebrain.com/i-and-the-bird-134-a-birders-library/
http://camissonia.blogspot.com/2011/08/eastern-sierras-south-lake-lake-sabrina.html

orchids

I can't believe I haven't collected these before now. Again, these are only the ones I happened to come across from reading blogs:

http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/10/great-plains-ladies-tresses-still.html
http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/09/first-of-last-spiranthes-orchids.html
http://66squarefeet.blogspot.com/2011/09/orchids-in-queens.html
http://biobabbler.blogspot.com/2011/09/white-rein-orchid-or-sierra-bog-orchid.html

http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2010/08/spiranthes-orchid-time.html

http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2010/08/two-sunny-days-heather-elusive-orchid.html

http://peonyden.blogspot.com/2011/09/and-early-flowering-for-pterostylis-x.html
http://peonyden.blogspot.com/2011/09/green-forms-of-myrmechila-formicifera.html
http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2011/09/ode-to-ohios-prairies-bluegrass-region.html
http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2011/09/purple-fringeless-orchid-platanthera.html
http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2011/09/old-faces-in-new-places.html
http://peonyden.blogspot.com/2011/09/more-finger-orchids-caladenias.html
http://surreymothing.blogspot.com/2011/08/wry-smile-at-denbies.html
http://zettsett.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-flowers-along-my-way.html

http://natureid.blogspot.com/search/label/orchid%20family

http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2011/04/pretty-picture-phragmipedium-cardinale.html

http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/04/owls-orchids-ospreys.html

http://bluejaybarrens.blogspot.com/2011/05/topsy-turvey-slippers.html

http://matthewwills.com/2010/06/14/my-ladys-slippers/

http://aeshnacaerulea.blogspot.com/2011/06/mystery-plant-update.html

http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-uncommon-finds.html

http://winterwoman.net/2011/07/30/broadleafhelleborine/

http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2011/08/life-plant-numero-uno-prairie-fringed.html

http://orchidcrossley.blogspot.com/2011/08/its-almost-end-of-our-orchid-season.html

http://peonyden.blogspot.com/2011/08/better-weather-better-photos-of-bird.html

http://jwallphoto.blogspot.com/2011/08/hornswoggled.html

http://floraofohio.blogspot.com/2011/08/plethora-of-platanthera-orchids.html

http://peonyden.blogspot.com/2011/08/two-new-species-of-orchids-for-me.html

http://phyteclub.org/2011/08/19/the-sierra-nevada-dont-call-them-bugs/

http://camissonia.blogspot.com/2011/08/eastern-sierras-south-lake-lake-sabrina.html

entomophagy

I actually have a couple blog posts that I remember reading, but I can't seem to find them now.

http://thedragonflywoman.com/2011/08/19/friday-5-edible-insects/

carnival poppy vs. cream cup

carnival poppy, narrow-leaved meconella
Meconella linearis, Hesperomecon linearis, Platystigma linearis
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=10925

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/img_query?rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=Hesperomecon+linearis|Meconella+linearis

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Meconella+linearis
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_cpn.pl?28048&expand=1 (H. linearis)
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_cpn.pl?38668&expand=1 (P. linearis)

http://biobabbler.blogspot.com/2011/05/botanical-quiz-2-do-list-photo-may-day.html
http://biobabbler.blogspot.com/p/plants.html

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Meconella%20linearis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23326361@N04/3464035783/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25811112@N04/2453990980/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkirkhart35/2375874339/in/photostream (incorrect?)


cream cups
Platystemon californicus
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=6635

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/img_query?rel-taxon=contains&where-taxon=Platystemon+californicus

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?Platystemon+californicus
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_cpn.pl?38664&expand=1 (synonyms)

http://dipperanch.blogspot.com/2011/04/wildflower-hotspots-of-santa-cruz.html
http://rootedincalifornia.blogspot.com/2010/06/san-pablo-reservoir.html

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Platystemon%20californicus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25811112@N04/2453195589/

what's idyllic?

http://www.soenyun.com/Blog/2011/08/21/garden-on-the-edge/
http://baron-troutbirder.blogspot.com/2011/08/progress.html