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Music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750, my favorite composer)
The J.S. Bach Home Page
The Miami Bach Society
Some of other composers whose works I enjoy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791) (see also this interesting article about J.S. Bach's influence
on W.A. Mozart )
Franz Josef Haydn
(1732-1809)
Johann Christian
Bach (1735-1782)
George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759)
Johann Michael
Haydn (1737-1806)
John Dowland
(1563-1626, the great Elizabethan composer and lutenist)
Muzio Clementi
(1752-1832, composer of classical period piano sonatas)
Some favorite early music performers
Paul O'dette (An amazingly talented lutenist who
I saw perform in Miami in March, 2002)
Jordi Savall
(An exceptionally talented musician)
Michigan (my home state)
Leelanau
County, Michigan (where I grew up)
The Leelanau
Conservacy (I carried out a floristic inventory
of a Leelanau Conservancy natural area during summer the summer of
2000)
Porcupine
Mountains Wilderness State Park (A beautiful place
for hiking and camping)
Some of my favorite plants
1. Giant horsetails (my favorite
plants!)
2.
Huperzia squarrosa (= Lycopodium squarrosum)
(a fascinating "fern ally" that I grow). Here is a closeup of an
interesting Australian form
of this species.
Photos of many other epiphytic Huperzia
species ("tassel ferns") cultivated by Heaton's Fern Nursery in Australia.
Lycophyta tutorials (excellent pages with
information on this fascinating and unique group of plants)
a.) Introduction
b.) Detailed
discussion
3. The Wollemi
Pine (Wollemia nobilis) (Probably the greatest
botanical discovery of the 20th century!)
See also www.wollemipine.com
4. Stranglers
& Banyans: Amazing Figs of the Tropical Rainforest
Lord Howe Island Banyan (Ficus macrophylla
f. columnaris )
(This is the banyan form of
F. macrophylla ; The single trunk form is F. macrphylla f. macrophylla
)
Photo 1 (Palermo Botanical Garden,
Italy)
Photo 2 (Palermo Botanical Garden,
Italy)
6.
Amorphophallus titanum ( I actually grow one
of these amazing plants! Take a look at this excellent photo
of the extraordinary compound leaf of A. titanum)
7. ABC of Azolla
(learn more about these cute little aquatic ferns that are also economically
important)
8. The Charms of Duckweed: An
introduction to the smallest flowering plants.
Local (South Florida) Plant Societies
The Tropical Fern
and Exotic Plant Society (Miami, Florida)
The Florida
Chapter of the American Bamboo Society
Last modified
October 24, 2002