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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. Gull special
March 18, 2017
I used to be a much-better-than-average birder, and in those old avian-watching-days, this gull, observed flying over the Weekapaug Breachway, would have been identified...
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Reluctant green
March 17, 2017
Saint Patrick's signature accomplishment—ridding the homeland of serpents, dangerous and otherwise—will certainly not be needed this afternoon, the advent of the celebrat...
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Homecoming
March 16, 2017
When the beavers returned to the millpond last year, I saw almost daily evidence of their busy work, the undoing of which, by this equally busy, or, at least, persistent,...
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Scary aftermath
March 15, 2017
Stella is gone, and in her good-riddance wake, the ferocious storm left bitter cold, howling winds, and about three inches of hard-frozen snow. The fact that there won't...
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Below expectations
March 14, 2017
When I got up this morning, the lights were on, the wind was fairly calm—for March... it's been blowing steadily for days—and it was snowing, but lightly. The forecast, h...
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