Category: Evolution

• August 15, 2022

  The Coast, the Dunes, and the Waterfall

  My trip into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan took me to a rather special place in the Midwest- coastal sand dunes. Coastal sand dunes are Great Lake specialties- remnants of the time when glaciers covered the land. You can imagine glaciers as giant snow plows mixed with trench diggers; as they stretched down across early…
• August 9, 2022

  Upper Peninsula of Michigan Orchids

  My trip to the upper peninsula of Michigan was in large parts, to familiarize myself with the flora of the U.P. region, mostly though, to find some dang orchids. Dang orchids is what I found- 7 species in fact. Allow me to describe them to you all! First off, I’ll give you my favorite find,…