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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. Slow burn
September 18, 2017
Long before autumn's Big Show, which, of course, is the turning of the leaves, there's a Little Show that starts in late summer. To find it, you have to take to the trail...
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The blues begin
September 17, 2017
We've had wild asters in bloom since the middle of August, but they were the white, Wood variety—and their cousins—and they're more a sign of the turning past midsummer t...
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Juvenile uncertainty
September 16, 2017
Sometimes the best discoveries are those closest to home, and so it went this morning, when I was taking a writing break and walked down the hall to my wife's office, whi...
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No blue spots here
September 15, 2017
I got a call from my youngest grandson Luc, who is now an eighth-grader with a longstanding love of all things amphibian. (He is rather fond of reptiles, too.) A phone me...
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Reading the weeds
September 14, 2017
As part of my ongoing mission to ensure that the unnerving title of Richard Louv's book, Last Child in the Woods, doesn't come true on my watch, I spent the day taking th...
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