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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. Looper revealed
July 05, 2017
Most of today was spent trying frantically to finish up writing projects, so the trekking notebook was essentially a blank page. But I did have a bit of time to walk the...
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The other light show
July 04, 2017
I promised myself that, despite my increasing terror over the future of this country—and our democratic "experiment"—I would keep politics more or less out of these posts...
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Rhode show
July 03, 2017
My monitoring wild Rhododendron tree up the road has begun to bloom, so that meant a trek to the Rhododendron maximum forest in the Long and Ell Pond Preserve region in n...
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Landscape ode
July 02, 2017
Years of tracking dragonflies have taught me, within fairly broad limits, when to expect certain signature species to show up, and looking back at my records, I was figur...
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Summer jewels
July 01, 2017
Jewelweed is one of the first wildflowers I learned way-back-when... when I started to become a naturalist. The reason, of course, was utilitarian. In fact, almost all of...
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