Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?     Percy Bysshe Shelly, Ode to the West Wind

Blaine Hebert has held a life-long love of nature, life, science and technology (both old and new).  He has a Masters Degree in biology and has taught many years in high school and college sciences.  He is a local authority on arachnids and spiders and has lectured to many schools and institutions about spiders and other arthropods.

Blaine is a past president of the Lorquin Entomological Society (2008 & 2010) and remains an active officer.

His interests are cooking, bicycling, paddling, nature photography, astronomy, astrophotography and neurophysiology… and writing.