by Richard Hollis | Jan 12, 2019 | Nature's Oddities
Wet Lichens and Dry Lichens by Rick Hollis Lichens are marvelous things, composite organisms made up of an algae, a fungus and kind of yeast. One the many things that I learned from John Pearson this fall*, is that under dry conditions the the fungal cells’...
by Richard Hollis | Jan 8, 2019 | Birds, memories, Uncategorized
Ivory-billed Woodpecker Memories Rick Hollis When I was a kid, my family used to vacation in the mountains of Western Maryland at a park which was then called Herrington Manor State Park. It was a great place for a kid acres of woods, a 50 acre lake. There was a...
by Richard Hollis | Jan 8, 2019 | Birds, memories
Eastern Screech Owl Memories by Eric Miller When I was young I spent a great amount of time with my grandparents in the small town of Henderson, IL, though my brother and I lived with our single mother in Peoria. Our grandparents lived in a pre-Civil War home in the...
