I identified this shiny green beetle as a Fiery Searcher (Calosoma scrutator). I freed it from the bucket that it was in earlier in the week, but just yesterday I found it again (or another just like it) in the same bucket! This is a (usually) dry creekbed near our house, and last week we […]
In an effort to tidy up my web presence a bit, I have decided to take the most drastic step of getting rid of Blogger and switching to WordPress. Nothing against Google, it’s just that I was tired of the boring template and all the formatting trouble it was giving me. Having said that, I […]
What Ziphen Central (“Ziphen” rhymes with “hyphen”) is very much a blog of miscellanies. There is no unifying theme, but only bits and pieces of my thoughts and things that tickle my fancy. On Sundays you’ll find a hymn with lyrics and sometimes audio, and on other days I may talk about languages, frugality, virtues, […]