Continue Reading Thick as a Brick Realizing that our worst fears about Betsy deVos’ plans for the public education system have come true make me want to bang…
Continue Reading Heart of Stone As cold as stone, a heart of stone, trying to squeeze blood out of a stone – so many phrases come to mind…
Continue Reading Status: In Flight I figured we can all use some lift by proxy at the end of this very week. So here are some birds…
Continue Reading Ardeidae Ardeidae is the family name of those long legged waterbirds: herons, egrets and bitterns. Herons are beautiful birds. They come in different…
Continue Reading Shore Birds Will it surprise you, dear Reader, to hear that I sometimes have a vivid imagination? Most of the time, to be honest?…
Continue Reading In Need of Cheer? The goldfinch it shall be…..captured year-round in places near Portland. At Least 47 Shades The goldfinch in its full spring molt. The bee pollen of sticky and thick. The quince to perfume…
Continue Reading For the birds Kirtland Warbler, photo source on the web This week is dedicated to some of the birds I recently photographed and stories and questions…
Continue Reading The truly weird When night descended on my father’s brain in the year before his death, it was filled with vivid hallucinations. Among them were…
Continue Reading Against the ODDS and at the WHIM of others Odd and whim – I sort of had those synonyms for quirks to get into the stories I wanted to relate today….
Continue Reading Peculiarity When I look at photography I often have strong reactions. I like something a lot or I dislike something enormously. I am…
