Answering the Call of Nature
This foggy picture is from Baker Park in Frederick, Md., said Dr. David Cassatt, a program officer with NIAID.
Photo: David Cassatt
Cassatt photographed these flowers by the C&O Canal, downstream from Point of Rocks.
Photo: David Cassatt
Dr. Daphne W. Bell, a senior investigator in the reproductive cancer genetics section of NCI’s Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, sent a “photograph that I took of a baby fawn, hidden by its mother behind an iris patch in my garden this past spring. It stayed there for 10 days; by day 8 it was exploring the garden, with ‘Mum’ watching from a distance. Apparently deer ‘hide’ their young and graze at a safe distance so that predators do not find the fawn; they feed the fawn at dawn and dusk.”
Photo: Daphne Bell
Morning Visitor. “A curious visitor outside my kitchen seemed to be wondering why the humans are still at home each day!” said Helen Hunter Cox, a senior grants management specialist at NIDDK.
Photo: Helen Hunter Cox
August 2020 Rainbow: “Somewhere over I-95…a beautiful, vivid rainbow after an August storm,” captured by Cox.
Photo: Helen Hunter Cox
Following an unusual season in which the majority of us spent lots of time observing various phases of lockdown, quarantine and/or isolation, the Record asked its readers: What have you seen outside that might have escaped your notice before? As usual, NIH’ers came through with outstanding answers. Here are some of the images we’ve received so far.
There’s still time, if you want to share. Send (high-resolution color digital) image(s) with a brief caption to rm26q@nih.gov or cg9s@nih.gov.