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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. Self-destructing fungi
July 10, 2017
Given that we're getting very close to Henry David Thoreau's 200th birthday, I've been very much in HDT mode, which is to say, somewhat apologetically, that I haven't rea...
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Another milkweeder
July 09, 2017
Like a lot of things this year, the Great Spangled Fritillary butterflies were exceptionally late in emerging and reclaiming the meadow across the street. But in the past...
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Wintergreen, spotted
July 08, 2017
It's been a fine flowering season for Spotted Wintergreen, one of the prettiest—and, from the viewpoint of its common moniker, misnamed—wildflower in the drier areas of o...
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Summer visitor
July 07, 2017
One of the real joys of getting out on the trail is a chance to see the new and the unexpected. (To be sure, seeing the old and the expected species is another kind of jo...
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Butterfly favorite
July 06, 2017
There is one thing to be said for getting old: you wind up visiting an increasing number of doctors. Now, this doesn't sound like a plus, but in my case, most of my physi...
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