Beauty

Beauty

Beauty Part 2 – Notes from the Garden. Click here to see series (https://notesfromthetrail.org/notes-from-the-garden/) I’ve had a long-standing requirement that anything I planted in the garden had to bloom color.  No boring stuff.  I have since loosened my rule to...
The Garden

The Garden

The Garden Part 1 – Notes from the Garden. Click here to see series (https://notesfromthetrail.org/notes-from-the-garden/) I have a passion for gardening.  It started in early adulthood when Vicky and I bought our first home and has grown over the years.   Our current...
Progress

Progress

Progress I recently read a powerful book by Johan Norberg entitled Progress that laid out some ideas that I been noodling on lately and recapped in my previous note Better. He captured the ideas and supporting data much better so I summarize his key point below....
Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence This is a picture of my new Firefly Petunia on the patio (taken at night under a dark blanket). The firefly petunia is bioluminescent – meaning it glows in the dark! This petunia was created by modifying its genome with some bioluminescence genes from...
Vaccines

Vaccines

Vaccines I am getting ready for a trip to Nepal with my dear friend Bobby – celebrating a lifetime of ministry partnership together. Seeing the Himalaya’s and Mt. Everest will knock off a bucket list item for sure. No we are not climbing Everest I had to get...