Estate Find 53

We’re not doing it weekly anymore, but the Estate Finds will still creep in here and there, and this one certainly merits attention we’re doing away with the roman numeral horseshit though. This is what greeted me when I went out front today:


That’s part of our bird feeder system. Two feeders down, both damaged, one crook tilted crazily. Now, the soil tends to read more

Storytime 38

It was March 2006, and the infamous Jim Kramer and I had taken a weekend trip out to the coast to explore some new areas photographically. We had no itinerary and only a rough route planned out – basically, we were winging it to see what we might find, which as far as I’m concerned is the best way to do it.

We were following a sandy access road down among some farmed fields that were read more

Amateur naturalism, part four


I didn’t initially intend it this way, but we’ve been working through a scale of increasing difficulty and effort in this series, starting with insects, then working through birds, read more