Monthly Archives: December 2017

December 28, 2017: Hummingbird outside my window

Its throat catches sun Iridescent, royal, It hovers, fleeting.

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December 22, 2017: Pre-work run in Tilden on the threshold of the holidays

Ice cracked in dog bowls Melted by fire in the sky Magic in the air

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December 21, 2017: The long and short of winter solstice

Over the past months Short days have gotten shorter While for light I long

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December 19,2017: Midnight run commute

Misty, windy, cold, Silent through the streets of Berkeley, Water on my face.

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December 13, 2017: Midweek AGU

A day of catchments Ecohydraulics is next Discovery thrills

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December 12, 2017: The humanity of science

Dinner field stories: Don’t get into that brown van! I laugh ’til I cry.

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December 11, 2017: Flurries in New Orleans

Flurries on the street Streetlights illuminate the warped polar vortex

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December 7, 2017: From the Eel (inspired by Keith Bouma-Gregson’s dissertation)

In slow river flows Cyanobacteria produces toxins

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December 6, 2017: Marsh sediment trapping exhibit at the Exploratorium

Patterns beautiful and ephemeral emerge from life in a flow.

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December 5, 2017: Nighttime commute

Unicycle man Passes full-backpack runner On Berkeley’s hushed streets

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