Summer World: A Season of Bounty

The book goes like a true story of parts of nature.

Wood frogs: Their rituals(awake for only few months a year and still thriving) seem weird. The author doesnt just stop at this observation. He goes about setting up little experiments to prove or dispute the possible explanations.

Bald-Faced Hornet Nests: Hornet paper, a Talisman to ward off all evil predators from a vireo's nest.

The Blues: Why ants dont eat blue butterflies?

Mud Daubers and Behavior: Can you imagine being born in an encasement with food provided?

Artful Diners: Rolled leaf caterpillars and dried leaves with still a bit of green at a spot

The sketches and pictures add to the magic.

Facing the heat

The fires is a must read for anyone curious about how a modern city works.- book's blurb.

That an opened door is an invitation for the fire to engulf the person who opens the door, that a big hole in the roof helps control the fire.. a hole in a roof is said to be enough to ruin a barn. The say of a buliding's architecture in its reaction to fire.

What is a good book?

When I am looking for something new to read, its novelty should match The wave watcher's companion

I want it to have big ideas.

Reading poems on poets.org, I like how with the search on the top right, you can make an anthology of your own of any common subject. I wake up and think, I want to read poems on 'morning' and I just need to have time to read 70 poems on it.