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Category: Nature

  • A Perfect Autumn Sunrise

    I let my dog, Chickadee, out into a quiet, chilly October morning. The sun was about to rise over the distant wooded horizon, and a thin waning moon hung high in the pale blue sky. While I gazed at the moon, the very tip of the sun showed itself and grabbed my attention. At the…

  • Some Photos

    I haven’t posted any photos here since 2015, and although with these new iPhone cameras, “good” cameras aren’t as necessary as before, there’s something special about intentionally taking photos with a nice camera and developing them in Lightroom. And the quality is undoubtedly a lot better. Still, 95% of my photos are taken with my…

  • 13 Haikus

    Electric outlets:The holes look like lil faces.Like they’ve just been shocked. Kitchen light with dust.Dust on top of fatty grease.Dead bugs in the dust. A wee lil nuthatch,Upside down on a pine’s trunk,Enjoys a lil snack. The lilies are gone.Seed pods grow where each blossomed.Infinite lilies. Two doggy ears perked.A squirrel jumps limb to limb.Unseen…

  • The Fluttering Tree

    There’s a young quaking aspen in the forest bordering my backyard. All around it are young maples, oaks, dogwoods, and cherry trees. I’ve watched them grow over the past five years. But there’s something special about the aspen. Even in the faintest breeze, so faint I can’t feel it on my skin, its leaves flutter…

  • Tarpon Moon

    It was a windless night on the bay. He sat in a folding chair, fishing rod in one hand, bottle of whiskey in the other, staring into the full moon’s rippling reflection. He wondered what the moon actually was. It clearly wasn’t what he’d been taught in school. Could it be true, as he’d heard…

  • The Photograph

    All day he couldn’t get that fish out of his head. During his morning walk along the stream he heard the biggest trout in five years rise and pull a large fly from the surface. It was the sound of it he couldn’t stop thinking about. Almost a gurgle. Not a pop or a splash…

  • A Leaf’s Final Dance

    In the middle of the end of autumn, I lay on my back in the soft blanket of fallen leaves coating the forest floor and looked up at the oaks and the maples, who were mostly undressed. Each time the air whispered its secrets to them and to the birds and to me, dozens of light yellow…

  • Meet Chickadee

    If you follow this website, you know I’m a lover of dogs, especially golden retrievers. My two boys, Buddy and Rigs, passed away earlier this year, and life hasn’t been the same since then, in a bad way. I had intended to wait until 2016 to get a new dog, but the pressure inside me…

  • Recent Photos – Wildlife, Plants, Dogs, Scenery

    Below are 30 recent photos of wildlife, plants, dogs, and scenery, all taken from March to August. If the photos aren’t fully viewable on your computer screen, which happens to me with the vertical shots, just click them to view.   Wildlife Bees enjoying some April pollen (4 pics)   Plants   Dogs   Scenery…

  • 6 of Earth’s Most Amazing Creatures

    Our planet has mind-blowing diversity among its many truly amazing creatures. Even in the simplest creatures is incredible complexity, each one born with the innate ability to flourish in its own unique environment. That’s not to mention the more complex, fascinating creatures, six of which are the subjects of this article. Within Earth is an infinite number of…