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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. Manual labor
July 15, 2017
A few years ago, my ancient Snapper gas-powered push mower finally bit the dust (it was at least three decades old at the time), and rather than replace it with something...
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Delicious harvest
July 14, 2017
After almost 40 years in the journalism business, I have to admit that I still love being a writer and photographer... I guess this is pretty obvious. But some days I lov...
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For the love of... bee flies
July 13, 2017
I've become, this year in particular, a big fan of a group of Diptera that belong to the fly family Syrphidae, a.k.a., the "hover" or "flower" flies. The hovering designa...
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A Thoreauvian birthday gift
July 12, 2017
Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist's naturalist to whom everyone in this business owes a debt of gratitude, would have marked his 200th birthday today, and in celebratio...
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Caterpillar stylin'
July 11, 2017
Here's another episode in the "joys of sticking close to home" series, the one mandated by work and family situations. I'd been writing, productively but not exactly happ...
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