Miscellany from the Blogosphere 2

In Photos from Northern Norway, Thomas Laupstad has posted two pictures of European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) feeding their young. The first one captures the parent in midair, just before landing outside the birdhouse. The second shows the parent with its beak in the baby’s mouth during feeding. Be sure to click on the photos to see the large versions. See also the pictures of an enormous cod. The blog includes pictures not only of wildlife, but also plants and landscapes from Thomas’ home north of the arctic circle.

People in the Sun is a personal blog with sardonic tone of voice that I enjoy. In late June he published My Cemetery Story. This Baltimore resident and one-time New Yorker used to be in the Israeli army on duty in Palestinian lands, which is also the setting for this tale. Check out his other army posts too, some of which deal with Lebanon. They are frank, blunt, and not a little startling. Like his posts in general, they capture little things that matter.

Getting health care in this country can be a trial. Kathy Frederick writes More Ventrogluteal Fun, in which she gets a shot with the door open for the world to see. Instead of indignation, she musters up some humor and we get to laugh with her on The Junk Drawer.

I love the pictures that Bobbie Sullivan posts on The Right Blue, a blog about her lifelong passion for diving. Her most recent post, Blue Spotted Stingray at Pulau Sipadan, is without any words, though she writes engaging posts as well. See for example, On a collision course with critters in the sea.

And please permit me a shameless plug for one of my own posts on Clio and Me. In honor of the Independence Day, I link the Declaration of Independence to both relevant antecedents in seventeenth-century English history and the Enlightenment-inspired Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of the French Revolution. The piece is called Why I like the Declaration of Independence.

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