* * * I just read Caesar’s Last Breath , in which author Sam Kean makes science writing as fun as anything else you’d bring to Lima...

* * * I've been in a bit of a rut when it comes to photography. A rut -- any kind of rut -- is just a comfort zone whose bounda...

* * * It was a little too early in the day when I arrived at the leopard lily patch. The lilies were still nodding serenely on thei...

* * * Coyote (who plainly sees the weird box strapped to a tree limb).  (A fast-moving pup had blurred through a week earlier) ...

* * * Coyote gobbled down the last bit of his morning gopher, then stepped briskly up the steep slope through tall brown grass unti...

* * * "This forest road was little used by human beings and as there was an abundance of game in the forest through which it r...

* * * I'm surprised it's been so long since I posted anything. I've been feeling like the blog has been winding itself ...

* * * In honor of the special day I decided to visit the planet Earth, and an especially lovely corner of it situated on the outski...