Paris and Rome have their catacombs, but Seattle has its underground. The burgeoning town was started on tide flats in what is now the...

When we were cruising around the San Juan Islands recently, one of the passengers pointed at the shore and exclaimed, "Anacondas!"...

While hiking in the San Juan Islands recently, I came across this tree that looked like Groot rising up from the forest floor. Not the...

When I hike through the woods, I spend a lot of time looking at the ground to make sure I don't trip over tree roots and rocks. Sometimes...

Need I say more? One week ago my Covid at-home test was positive. A few days later, my lab-based PCR test was positive. Now I am back to...

The Sea, by Irish author John Banville, was reviewed in The Guardian as one of the best Irish novels. Because I have plans to travel to...

(Image: William Dent, CCO, via Wikimedia Commons) For more than two years I've felt as if I've been evading Covid, much like a fox evades...

According to Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput was an island of tiny people who were only inches tall. I imagine that the flowers on the...

About a week ago, the boat on which I was cruising stopped at Port Angeles and arrange for me and my fellow passengers to bus into...

The weather at the start of my recent trip to the San Juan Islands was such that the Captain decided to stay anchored near Hope Island...

Until the mid-20th century, Spencer Spit on Lopez Island was a popular location for Native Americans to crab, fish, and dig for clams. It...

I spent Easter weekend at the Inn at the Market in Seattle. Each morning, the local flower purveyors hauled in buckets and buckets of...

I recently returned from an 8-day “cruise” in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Spring is one of the best times to visit because...

When you live on a rural property as big as mine, it is not unusual to find old things strewn here and there in the woods. I've found a...

This buck looks as if he is leading an easy life, resting in the meadow surrounded by tasty grass. But this is not the typical pose of...

I spent a fair amount of 2020 learning to use Photoshop and a number of other image processing tools. One of my goals was to learn how to...

Last fall, my landscaper lined my driveway with 500 daffodil bulbs. Her crew did such a good job replacing the dirt and grass that I was...

I love New York not only because I was raised in upstate, but because the state is fabulous. NYC is one of the most vibrant and exciting...

Flowers look best in their natural habit. But when practicing to compose and photograph still life scenes, plucked flowers look terrific...

Turkeys spend so much time walking and running on the ground, that I wonder why they have wings. The males fluff them out and make...