Outside where the wild things are

Weather:
    Weather Underground (weather forecasts)
    Interactive Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Data :  Current satellite images from NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center.
    Northern lights  (Norwegian website)

Mountains:
    Info for getting to and climbing mountains worldwide: summitpost.org
    Peakware World Mountain Encyclopedia
    For official mountain lists in New England see the 4000 Footer Club webpage.
    Mount Washington Observatory  |  Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
    For more lists of mountains around the world. Direct links to the highest peaks in the United States by state, Canada by province, and Europe by country.

Flowers:
    North America - NorthEast:  Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants  |  Gallery of Connecticut wildflowers
    North America - West: Death Valley Wildflowers  |
    Europe: Flora of Europe - a photographic herbarium | Natural History of Iceland Site | Flora of Iceland (only some pages are in English, for flowering plants check the index to Latin names)

Pollen:
     US: pollen.com (by zip code) or National Allergy Bureau (by pollen counter location) , and at AllerNet
     Europe: Polleninfo  (throughout Europe)  or  BBC Pollen Forecast  (for UK)
     Pollution: Air quality (EPA)  |  Haze and pollution webcams

Birds:  Eagle cam  (footage of a MA eagle nest)  |  Mass Audubon  |  MA birding links  |  Eastern MA hawkwatch  |

Trails (New England, esp NH):
    Cohos Trail
    Metacomet - Monadnock (M-M) Trail
    Monadnock Sunapee Greenway Trail Club (MSGTC)
    Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Coalition
    Wapack Trail - Friends of the Wapack
    NH Hikes, entire state including info on parking lots in winter

Trails (Québec):
    Sentiers frontaliers

    Photography

Photographing the California Coast with the California Coastal Record Project
Yann-Arthus Bertrand and his project Earth from the Air
Northern lights by Sigurður Stefnisson in Iceland.
Michael von Griffenried - His photography in Algeria...  mini-site at reportage

Helpful tips on photography  |  Domke Camera Bags  |  Nikon (official US site)  |
The Nikon Equipment Interchange  (which accessories fit on which cameras) |  Nicke's Nikon Page  (incl camera and lens specs)  |  Nikkor lens mounts
Digital Photography Review  |  Steve's Digicams  |
Olympus 5050 sites: Olympus C5050z digital camera resource (maintained by Alfred Molon)  | Photo tidbits (maintained by J. Andrzej Wrotniak)

A variety of author biographies at the Authors' Calendar

Dictionaries: English < = > various languages (freedict)  |  German < = > English Dictionary   |   Another list of various online dictionaries
        All sorts of ways to search against the dictionary: definition, rhyming, substring, anagram...

Literary journals: Blueline (SUNY Potsdam)  |  Berkshire Review  |  New England Review  (Middlebury College) |  Prism International  (Univ. British Columbia)

Newspapers: The Boston Globe  | Boston Phoenix  | The Christian Science Monitor  |  The New York Times  |

    Salmagundi

Lee Kilpatrick - Mr. OrangeShirt himself
Baseball statistics  |  The Boston Red Sox
Hey, mathematicians are HIP:  math trading cards !!
The ever-so-logical pointy-eared celebrity has lots of things to say at A Quote from Mr. Spock
Currency Conversion  |  Times for sunsets and sunrises worldwide
La Femme Nikita (USA Network site)   |   Movie Review Query Engine
Satellite tracking :  Realtime satellite tracking and satellite information courtesy of NASA.  Also in 3-D.  Plus, determine visible satellite passes.
Remaindered books : Edward Hamilton

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Last revised: April 2005