But if you're on the lookout for it, you can find science everywhere, even when you're on vacation, such as our recent trip to Lago Maggiore.
Look! Orange lichen!
Now, I know this is just basic naturalism (so perhaps doesn't really count as science...?), but we love to observe the wildlife wherever we go!
The lizards look a lot like the ones we observed in Lourdes!
My kids observed: "Now we know there are lizards in Italy, too."
We haven't seen any lizards in Switzerland yet, but we've seen something better: newts! I'd never seen newts in the wild before, but we've seen them plenty of times in the streams of Zürich. Maybe I'll post a picture sometime...
In the meantime, here's the obligatory tourist photo of the white peacocks of the Borromean Islands:
5 comments:
I've never heard of the white peacocks. Do you have a close-up? Ahh, google images came through.
Hey Sam-I-Am!!!
Yeah, I was pretty surprised when I saw them! But this is apparently the sort of thing that was all the rage a few centuries ago for Italian nobles' gardens.
Ooh! Lichen! I have a thing for lichen and love to observe when hiking. I'll be on the lookout for orange lichen this summer.
Newts! I'm not sure I even know what those look like. But I DO know their eyes are great for potions. You know, just in case.
Hey Melisma!!!
Yeah, I always look for mosses and lichens too. And I point it out to my kids, who then do the same thing. :D
Hey Rebecca!!!
True, I hadn't even thought of the potion-making possibilities! I'm actually not 100% certain these are really newts, but they're something in the salamander/newt family...
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