"Robert Michael Pyle, a veteran Orion columnist, hung up his word processor at the end of 2007 and set out in his trusty 1982 Honda, known as Powdermilk, to find as many American and Canadian butterfly species as he could in a single year. To keep Orion abreast, Bob promised to mail us tidbits from the trail and occasionally give us a call. Twice a month throughout 2008, we post Bob's notes from the road."
Robert will be 61 years old this July. In this article he writes about his older brother Tom who receives Social Security payments and describes himself as being someone who "inspects trails and the government sends me a paycheck." He also quotes Henry David Thoreau who wrote in Walden, "For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms..."
"Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better."
