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Mark’s Covid Diary… May 25, 2020

By Mark | May 25, 2020

Last year on Memorial Day, my son and I discovered a giant vernal pool teaming with tadpoles at Riverside Park, so we thought we’d go back today in hopes of finding more. While we didn’t find any frogs or tadpoles, there was plenty for us to talk about. Among other things, we saw a family […]

Posted in Health, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alro, asian carp, Barack Obama, carp, Charles `The Butcher' Benton, Chuck Scarborough, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, double feature, exercise, frogs, golf, golfing, H1N1, Harold Hill, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Idaho, Indestructible Man, Joe Biden, masks, Memorial Day, pandemic, playgrounds, public health, Riverside Park, Russian roulette, swine flu, tadpoles, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Music Man, The Omega Man, vernal pool | 58 Comments

Mark’s Covid Diary…. May 17

By Mark | May 17, 2020

A week or so ago, I tried something different here, and just gave myself a set amount of time to write about things going on in my life, without giving too much thought as to what was happening in the outside world. Well, as I really enjoyed the exercise, I thought that I’d try it […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Media, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alro, AM 1700, artwork, butterfly, Clementine, comedy, corruption, COVID-19, dawn redwood, Donald Trump, Fathers Day, ferns, gardening, graffiti, hammock, humor, Inspector General, kale, Ma Florian, Mike Pompeo, pandemic, public health, redbud, Saturday Six Pack, Secretary of State, Steve Linick, trees, volunteering, white oak | 23 Comments

Talking about Highland Cemetery’s Starkweather Chapel, and the history of Ypsilanti’s death industry

By Mark | December 18, 2019

The Starkweather Chapel in Ypsilanti’s Highland Cemetery, for those of you who may not have noticed, has been undergoing some much needed renovation work this past year. Here, with more on the history of the building, and the preservation work that’s been done thus far, is a conversation I just had with lifelong Ypsilanti resident […]

Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1841, 1883, Ainsworth Mill, animal infestation, Barry LaRue, Battle of Bunker Hill, Beezy's, big death, Bill French, coffins, Daniel Quirk, DTE, Ebay, Elijah McCoy, EMU, funerals, George McCoy, grave digging, Greek Revival, Highland Cemetery, Historic District Commission, historic places, historic preservation, Historic Preservation Office, home funerals, J.E. Moore’s Furniture Store, Jasper Pennington, John D. Pierce, John Starkweather, Mack & Mack Furniture Store, Mary Ann Starkweather, Mason & Rice, memorial services, Normal College, Old Ypsilanti, oral history, plaster, Playboy, pornography, Prospect Cemetery, Prospect park, public art, public education, renovations, solar power, SPARK East, stained glass, Starkweather Chapel, Starkweather Hall, Starkweather House, State Historic Preservation Office, Stevens T. Mason, the funeral industry, underground railroad, Walter Loomis Newberry, water fountains, winter receiving vault, Ypsi history, Ypsi Solar, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Public Library | 4 Comments

“Herp Talk” with local amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald

By Mark | June 23, 2019

Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted here about both tadpoles and frogs that my son and I had found in Riverside Park. Well, as a result of these posts, I’ve come into contact with Eastern Michigan University amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald, who, I guess, felt professionally obligated to write in and correct me, informing […]

Posted in Environment, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ambystoma, amphibian biology, amphibian fungus, amphibian sex, amphibians, Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation, Anura, Arlo, Arnold Lobel, Australia, biology, Bufonidae, bullfrog, Cane toad, cats, Central America, chickens, children's literature, chytrid, chytridiomycosis, critters, cryptozoology, cultural impact study, Diplocaulus, earth science, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, environmental impact study, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tactics, extinction, faking death, faking one's death, flying frogs, Frog and Toad, frog-eating, frogamander, frogs, frozen frogs, gay characters in children's literature, Georgia, Gerobatrachus, Goro Furuta, habitat management, habitat preservation, HCI, herpetology, Heterodon platyrhinos, historic archeology, Historic Conservation and Interpretation, hognose snakes, hybrid salamanders, immigration interview, invasive species, Karen Warkentin, Katy Greenwald, Kelly's Island, landscape architecture, Lepospondyls, Loveland Frog, Madagascar, Mark's frog pond, mass extinction, metamorphosis, nontraditional sex, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Paleocene, pit viper, Population Viability Analysis, predators, Ranidae, relocating wetlands, reproduction, reptiles, restoring wetlands, Rick Shine, ringneck snake, Rutherford Pool, salamanders, Science Friday, sentinel species, Skyline high school, smeet, snakes, South America, sperm-stealing, tadpoles, Temnospondyls, the canary in the cole mine, toads, treefrogs, twofold cost of males, unisexual, University of Michigan natural history museum, vernal pool, warts, wetlands, Ypsi immigration interview, zoospores | 27 Comments

Fishing by drone in the Huron River

By Mark | June 18, 2019

I’m tempted to write about Trump’s big white power friendly rally of insanity in Florida tonight, but, instead, I think I’ll just share this footage I shot yesterday evening of someone fishing by drone in the Huron River. Watch, and be amazed. Yesterday, for the first time, I encountered someone fishing by drone in Ypsilanti’s […]

Posted in Environment, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 20 Pound Carp, bass, decathlon, deer, deer cull, Donald Trump, drone fishing, drone hunting, drones, fishing, fishing by drone, fishing license, hunting, hunting by drone, hunting by robot, hunting season, Jason Tallant, MAGA, Michigan Open Carry, open carry, Orlando, political rally, Riverside Park, robots, slippery slope, The Future, white nationalism | 16 Comments

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Mark’s Covid Diary… May 25, 2020

Mark’s Covid Diary…. May 17

Talking about Highland Cemetery’s Starkweather Chapel, and the history of Ypsilanti’s death industry

“Herp Talk” with local amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald

Fishing by drone in the Huron River

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