Almost at the Summit

It was a hit or miss attempt to make the red umbrella a theme of my photos.

Cass 2006 Photo 1

I have a ton of photos from the retreat at the Cass Field Station. Left to right and back to front: Dietrich, me, Ramona, Tanja, an entomologist, Simone, and Mareike.

New Brighton

I'm looking south from the pier towards the Banks Peninsula.

New Brighton Pier

Not much to say on this. It reminded me of the pier in Manhattan Beach. I didn't hang out that much in New Brighton. Sumner was more my scene.

An Academic Meeting?

I shot the photo on the last day of the Phylogenetics Conference. I think that we were at the Kaikoura Winery. The whole place was swank, and the wine flowed freely. Academics do hold their meetings in nice places.

Dinosaurs Were Big

The first photo is appropriate. I should begin at the beginning, and the line in the sandstone is it. I'm pointing at the K/T boundary when dinosaurs died and mammals conquered the earth. New Zealand was one of the places that geologists dated the extinction to around 65 million years. The photo was taken during my free day at the New Zealand Phylogenetics Meeting 2006 in Kaikoura.

The Alpha and the Omega

It's an appropriate title for the Easter season. I'm back in Massachusetts after traveling through Australia, Japan, and California. I feel there should be a time component for blogs. They're not like a book and should have an element of the unknown in the future. Too many have books they wish to write. I'll be shutting down this one shortly. I'll post one photo a day in chronological order from the beginning to the end of the trip. They'll be my most interesting photos and when it's over, it's over. Some photos you will have seen before. I'll be opening a Live Journal, but that will only have personal updates. I'll think I'll title it "Yet another blog by an unemployed 30 something data analyst." That will scare potential readers away.

Back in the USA

I'm writing this post in Palo Alto. I'm heading back to MA. I vacationed in Australia and Japan on my way from New Zealand. I'll be having a retrospective and shutting this blog down shortly. There's more to come once I arrive in MA and get on my laptop again. I actually mailed it to avoid the hassle of traveling with it.