Close up of a sleeping husky mix dog with her snout buried in a green blanket.
Lessons from my dog that I should probably apply to myself: When she is acting out, it means she needs a snack, exercise, mental stimulation or a nap.
A pen and ink line drawing of a beetle larvae and a mandarin orange segment with a brass fountain pen
Today's coffee-break sketch. I was doodling a Mandarin orange segment and was struck by how similar the forms are to beetle larvae! As usual, drawn with a Traveler's Co. fountain pen with Platinum sepia and carbon ink on a Lochby pocket notebook. #PenAndInk #drawing #sketch #traditionalArt
An illustration of a red rabbit with word bubbles that read: "Don't buy stuff Friday Febuary 28" Economic Boycott. Small businesses are okay. Use Cash.
Once this is complete I can start looking at the huge number of uncatalogued specimens. Poor things, sitting in their boxes, inaccessible to researchers...
A cardboard bankers box loaded with white-lidded glass jars and black-capped vials containing fluid preserved natural history specimens.
Current work goals: fixing issues of neglect in the invertebrate wet collection by sorting out dehydrated specimens to be stored safely in their present state, replacing deteriorated and poor-quality vessels, topping off or completely replacing ethanol, and adding thermal data labels to every jar.
Photo of white shelving holding jars of specimens preserved in ethanol.
After being in charge of organizing and unpacking all of it, the invertebrate wet collection is now my happy place.
