Subscribe
RSS
Archive
January (12) February March April (20) May (31) June (30) July (31) August (28) September October (18) November (18) December
January (1) February March April May June July August September October November December
January February March April May June July August September October November December
January February March April May June July August September October November December
January February March April May June July August September October November December

Preacher plant

April 30, 2016 - The flowering season of the Skunk Cabbage is long past, but there are plenty of blossoms getting ready to grace the wetl...
Read the Full Post »

A yellow-throated migrant

April 29, 2016 - I had a little bit of time to myself today, so I grabbed the supertelephoto lens and headed to the Babcock Ridge Preserv...
Read the Full Post »

The magic of touch

April 28, 2016 - It was a crummy day: wet, cool, and dreary. Had I been alone, I would have gone out anyway, but instead, my wife and I d...
Read the Full Post »

Elfin to elfin

April 27, 2016 - My granddaughter Stasia's in residence this week—school vacation—and we finally got in our obligatory hike up Lantern Hi...
Read the Full Post »

Airborne capture

April 26, 2016 - When you're using a "big gun," one of the hardest things to master is the classic action shot... especially if you're tr...
Read the Full Post »

The beginning of the end... hopefully

April 25, 2016 - I took advantage of a fabulous "daily deal" at the B&H Photo website and bought a bargain-priced ringlight that, I hoped...
Read the Full Post »

Flowers and fish

April 24, 2016 - This has been a funny spring. After essentially a non-winter, the first warm weather arrived unnaturally early but, no s...
Read the Full Post »

Opening ode day

April 23, 2016 - I did a quick trip up Lantern Hill, largely to continue field-testing the gargantuan Sigma supertelephoto and to, with m...
Read the Full Post »

Super supertelephoto

April 22, 2016 - I am always one to count my blessings, but some days feature more of them to count than others. So it was that when I he...
Read the Full Post »

Fire fighting practice

April 21, 2016 - It's a rare day that I don't get outside, camera in hand, to walk and chronicle at least one facet of the natural world,...
Read the Full Post »

The real blue ribbon

April 20, 2016 - I am not obsessed with Thamnophis sauritus... honest... but on today's trek to examine a new and utterly gorgeous woodla...
Read the Full Post »

Serial comma

April 19, 2016 - In the butterfly appearance serial that is currently unfolding, I finally got Lepidopteran Number Three to sit still lon...
Read the Full Post »

By extension

April 18, 2016 - One of my favorite lines describing photography is this: it's cheaper to be a heroin addict than a photographer. It's ac...
Read the Full Post »

Blue ribbon

April 17, 2016 - "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind," said the great microbiologist Louis Pasteur in a l...
Read the Full Post »

Environmental art

April 16, 2016 - Today's walk agenda revolved around a search for blooming Trout Lilies: low-to-the-ground spring ephemeral wildflowers t...
Read the Full Post »

How to tell a Garter

April 15, 2016 - On my walk today, I ran into an old friend at the Henne Preserve and in the course of chatting about the local birds, th...
Read the Full Post »

The blues

April 14, 2016 - One of my favorite Robert Frost poems is called "Blue Butterfly Day," and it's a perfect description of this still-early...
Read the Full Post »

Serious climbing

April 13, 2016 - I spent most of the afternoon at our local middle school, where I volunteer from time to time as an environmental educat...
Read the Full Post »

Not quite a true name

April 12, 2016 - The Virginia Rockbreaker, an extra hardy wildflower that grows with the local mosses and lichens on a roadside rock face...
Read the Full Post »

Invert magic

April 11, 2016 - In the Harry Potter series, one of the courses at Hogwarts that makes a frequent appearance is called "The Care of Magic...
Read the Full Post »

High water

April 10, 2016 - I'm always worrying about the state of the rainfall, and though, according to the US Drought Monitor, our stretch of the...
Read the Full Post »

Ridiculously early

April 09, 2016 - My trek today took me to a new area, this one north of my ridge in a stretch of fields and wetlands that may, in time, b...
Read the Full Post »

Airborne

April 08, 2016 - I was out early this morning to check on how the local Great Blue Herons were faring in the Henne swamp near my house, a...
Read the Full Post »

Gray and rainy

April 07, 2016 - This was one of those work-inside days, what with cool rain pelting down, a writing project to finish, and late afternoo...
Read the Full Post »

Entombed moss

April 06, 2016 - The morning started off ridiculously cold—19 at the low ebb, and if my record-keeping was better, it would probably have...
Read the Full Post »

Iced spice

April 05, 2016 - Winter Storm Ursula bid us a fond farewell—OK, I was fond of the chance to get in a few more laps around my cross-countr...
Read the Full Post »

Oy, not again

April 04, 2016 - The sainted Weather Channel posted the Winter Storm Warnings late last night for a blow they called Ursula, the name der...
Read the Full Post »

Spicy

April 03, 2016 - The overnight rain turned to snow towards daybreak, and when I looked outside, there was a haze of white on the leaf lit...
Read the Full Post »

The arbutus trail

April 02, 2016 - It's been raining off and on all morning, but right after lunch, the precipitation lightened to a minor drizzle and I ha...
Read the Full Post »

Operatic evening

April 01, 2016 - It was spring warm this evening, and after a day spent mostly inside working on various projects, I finally was able to...
Read the Full Post »