Taking Nike for a walk

The banner is coming along. I've changed my template again. The other one was too difficult for me to figure what everything meant. This one is a bit more intuitive.

Do you like the frogs in the banner? The picture was taken last July 3 (the last day of the Harvard Tropical Botanical Course). These little golden frogs were so cute...and I just can't resist the macro function on my camera. We have two Nikon cameras in the lab, but niether are as good for these shots as my (relatively) old Olympus, bought three years ago.

Today Larry and Cameron left for Spain where they will meet Lewis an Manuel. With Usher gone to England, only Erin, Mike, and I will be in the lab tomorrow and continuing into next week. Tim doesn't really count: a family member has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I really sympathize with the guy. Whenever things start to calm down and he can focus on his thesis, something happens, something that must be dealth with.

Nike went for a walk last night. She is getting very obediant about walking, although we still get strange looks for walking a cat on a leash. We met a well trained dog, Steve, and his owner Mike. Nike was freaked out a first and Steve patiently sat at his master's feet. After about 5 minutes, Nike could get to within a foot of the dog before she hissed. I was proud of her. For the past three days I have been taking Nike outside for a walk around 7:30pm. It was raining (the street at the back of my building flooded with about a foot of water) her today so I wasn't planning on taking her outside, but she's givining me the look, standing on her hind legs and putting her chin on my arm as I write this. Time to find out if she minds the wet grass.