Plants and fungi are my particular areas of interest. I've traveled from Nova Scotia to the Florida Everglades, to the states of California , Washington, Arizona, and to Costa Rica, Belize, and Guatemala on botanical field trips. I'm always on the lookout for a new plant. I've accumulated thousands of photographic images of plants representative of these areas which I find very useful to show students in the various courses I teach.

I particularly enjoy trees. A recent highlight was seeing coastal redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, and the giant sequoias of the Sierra Nevada range, Sequoiadendron gigantea. The General Sherman, above, is one of the largest giant sequoias.

Another recent first for me was seeing Dionaea muscipula, the Venus Fly Trap in its native range in the sandy coastal soils of North Carolina.

I'm a member of Eastern Penn Mushroomers, a Lancaster, PA based group of people from all sorts of backgrounds who enjoy finding, collecting and, in most cases, eating wild mushrooms. Our club is active all year long with winter lectures and field trips (forays) from April to December. In the picture, I'm smelling (some mushrooms have characteristic smells!) the Jack O'Lantern mushroom, Omphalotus olearius, a bright orange species that glows in the dark. Unfortunately, because of its toxicity, this species can't be eaten.