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Every day, if the weather is reasonable, which is to say not pouring (and sometimes even then), I try to start the morning with a walk through the woods and fields near home—a trek that includes many, many stops to photograph the natural history I find along the way. There can be a second "nature hike" when I break for lunch, and there are days when I'm outdoors keeping tabs on the natural world from dawn to dusk, as well as after dark. I've made my living as a photojournalist, specializing in science and medicine, for more than 39 years, and documenting nature in pictures and words has long been a passion. Every day brings a new discovery. Every day, I'll try to post the best one.

What Grayson wrought

January 05, 2018
Finally, a winter storm actually worthy of the name—and the hype. Grayson delivered about a foot of the driest, fluffiest powder snow in creation, and it definitely kille...
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A bomb arrives

January 04, 2018
Winter Storm Grayson, screamed the Weather Channel, was not only going to be the Real Thing, it was going to be The Bomb, as in a nor'easter that underwent a rapidly drop...
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Hanging on

January 03, 2018
The weather remains impressively frigid, with this morning's temperature bottoming out at four below and all eyes fixed on the possibility of a genuine blizzard tomorrow.
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Downy dilemma

January 02, 2018
It's so cold on our ridge—the temperature's not forecast to get out of the teens—that much of my activity centers around keeping the voracious appetites of two wood stove...
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Happy 2018

January 01, 2018
It was so cold this morning—I had two below for the minimum—that a number of places actually cancelled their "polar plunges" and told would-be leapers into the Atlantic t...
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