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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. Image-making inauguration
April 25, 2018
When Stasia was owlet-watching and fine-tuning her spotting scope skills a couple of days ago, she also watched me taking pictures of the mini-Great-Horned-Owls with the...
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Sanguinary
April 24, 2018
I planted my first Bloodroot in what passes for a true wildflower garden not long after we moved into the house I was still trying to finish in 1984. The little patch of...
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Owlscoping 101
April 23, 2018
My granddaughter Stasia is with us this week, and, happily enough, the sun was out, the day was close to warm—or, at least, warm enough to shed the parkas—and she was anx...
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Not quite breaking rocks
April 22, 2018
One of the most reliable signs that we've finally turned a corner towards real spring... not just calendar spring... is the appearance of a pretty little wildflower known...
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Great luck bird
April 21, 2018
One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the nineteenth-century biologist Louis Pasteur, who told his audience, during a college lecture, "In the fields of observ...
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