The cormorant as hero
by Kevin T McEneaney Cormorants are superb fishers, diving deep into the ocean, rivers, and lakes where they catch fish with their powerful bills. Humans have long employed them to catch fish, and in China and Japan, they still do ...
Purple martins in flight
by Kevin T McEneaney Wintering down in South America, they make their first appearance in Houston. Males and females jointly decide on nests. A brooding pair will birth three to six birds. * Adult plumage takes two years to appear ...
Too many songs
by Kevin T McEneaney The Northern Mockingbird, famous for song, is the state bird of Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee. Not only can a male imitate birds, they can imitate other animals, an alarm clock, the sound of a car ...
Greek myth
by Kevin T McEneaney All life that exists is cellular life. There is no other form of life at all. One might say cells are the “atoms” of life. Current theory holds that a lightning bolt may have divided a ...
What time do you have?
by Kevin T McEneaney Time still remains a puzzle to science because it seems that chance rules all atoms where strange particles bounce inside atoms in an unpredictable arrangement. Scientists prefer determinism. * Sometimes the calculations make no sense like ...
Thoughts on carbon
by Kevin T McEneaney All life is born from carbon building blocks that are assembled and disassembled. In that sense, your life is not different from a tree, cat, flamingo, or lizard. * Humans tend to think that we are ...
Look at your fingers
by Kevin T McEneaney In prehistoric times Neanderthals, Erectus, also Homo Sapiens counted with lines on bones, stones, and cave walls. They all found numbers to be essential for trade or calendar calculations. Numbers evolved from fingers on our hand ...
Rural delight
by Kevin T McEneaney Crocus, emblem of the arriving Spring: purple, yellow, orange trumpeting change to warmer weather despite frigid nights. Hardy in early March, they endure cold weather to blossom in the early sun. Homer compared its color to ...
Bank-side lyric
The high honking of ducks in early March signals return of warmer weather, yet nighttime frost may strike at any night. Each morning, light arrives much earlier with indication of approaching Spring, but there is no certainty till the frogs ...