Tag Archives: Lake
Five steps from the office
Another office day. Work was going great, the much anticipated paper was taking shape, the data looked beautiful. But one thing was not feeling right. It took me a while to define the feeling, but then I realised what it … Continue reading
Disturbing thoughts
Disturbance is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘the interruption of a settled and peaceful condition’. Nature is everything but a ‘peaceful condition’. However, without disturbance it would be a settled one. In ecology, we use the term ‘climax vegetation’ for such … Continue reading
Drought in the lake
California currently experiences the most extreme drought in the history of the state. It is so dry that they started desalinating the water of the ocean on a large scale (an interesting newsflash I learned from CNN at the airport). … Continue reading
Sweet summer child
I am a true summer child. I love the sun, the flowers, the birds and all nature’s activity in summer. I brighten up under a warm blue sky. I do not know a thing about the Scandinavian winters, with their … Continue reading