mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines
Approximately one year after the first outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China late in 2019, two vaccines were approved for emergency use in the United States and vaccinations began. They were the Pfizer-BioNTech and...
Author: greg@gibbard.us
Skyline Ski Area
Last month, my wife, Judy, and I traveled to Michigan to visit my mother and my brother and his family. As part of that trip we spent three days in the Higgins Lake area...
Cervids In the Backyard
Since our retirement, we have had the good fortune of living in two homes. One, our spring/summer home, is on Long Island where we can walk each day down to and by the sea,...
Winter Comes To The Wasatch
During the late fall and early winter of 2015, we positioned an infrared motion sensitive camera near the ridgelines to the south and to the east of Pinebrook peak which is located just north...
Lion Country
We have now owned a home in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, not far from Park City, for seven years. We have enjoyed the skiing (cross country, downhill, and backcountry), the hiking, the snowshoeing...
Visit to Grand Teton National Park
This past October, we drove up and spent three days in Grand Teton National Park. It is a half day drive from our front door in Park City, UT. We have visited it many...
SpaceX Launch
I like to think of our generation (we are in our early seventies) as the space generation. As a kid, I avidly read science fiction and watched all the sci-fi I could find at...
Ghost Moose
We live in moose country. In the fall and winter we live at about 7200 ft in the central Wasatch mountains of Utah on the outskirts of Park City. Yes, we are skiers. Moose...
Common Sea Birds
Gulls are the most common sea birds found along the shores of Long Island Sound. While it is clear even to the untrained eye that there are many varieties, I have to admit to...
Red-breasted Merganser
On two days of each week, we replace our normal machine-based indoor morning exercises with an extended walk on the beach. This past week we used this as an opportunity to photograph the...