Two blog carnivals about plants are well worth reading this month: Festival of the Trees celebrates flowering and blossoming this season at Orchards Forever, and Berry Go Round #16 features mutualism, evolution and other interesting plant posts at Quiche Moraine.
While the a broad swath of the US experiences storms and flash flooding, the dry season still has a firm grip on our part of Panama. We now have a weather report for April 2009 based on data from our relatively new weather station, put into some context by looking at the 16-year rainfall record of Ricardo Espinosa from Potrerillos Arriba.
