by Morning Reflections | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAs a naturalist, Charles Darwin wasn’t much of a “bird guy.”His real fascination was with barnacles.He spent eight years of his life, in fact, painstakingly dissecting smelly samples from all over the...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThere are a thousand stories behind every family picture.The three men standing in front of this seascape were all participants in the McDonald clan’s visit to the Galapagos Islands last week. They include...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe British sailors who began to make regular visits to the Galapagos Islands in the 18th and 19th centuries didn’t know what to make of the giant tortoises they found there.Aside from a few remote islands...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click herePeople who visit the Galapagos Islands are often entranced by the “celebrity” creatures that live there.I was certainly among the entranced when I paid a visit last week.The Galapagos is an archipelago of...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereHigh on a Sierra Nevada mountainside in eastern California stands the largest tree in the world.The numbers associated with this sequoia, which was named for Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, are hard...
