* * * So I was sitting on the edge of the world out at Chimney Rock this morning, thinking about a couple of books I've been ...

* * * I packed my camera gear up to Mt. Tam this morning to look for narrowleaf milkweed ( Asclepias fascicularis ), a lovely plant...

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* * * A hundred years before I was born, Louis Pasteur wrote that the difference on Earth between things that have life and thing...

* * * As I stare into a clear night sky and ponder mysteries such as the existence of life on other planets, I recall that life a...

* * * 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) ...