Answering the Call of Nature

This foggy picture is from Baker Park in Frederick, Md., said Dr. David Cassatt, a program officer with NIAID.

Cassatt photographed these flowers by the C&O Canal, downstream from Point of Rocks.

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.”

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.

August 2020 Rainbow: “Somewhere over I-95…a beautiful, vivid rainbow after an August storm,” captured by Cox.