Photos: the spider beside'r
I captured this blue collar woman hard at work. She'd been hanging on the window beside the kitchen table mummifying and devouring this...
Photos: Transition
On the Equinox, which also happens to be my birthday, I was visited by the Cooper's Hawk who lives in my neighborhood, plus a new albino...
Ode to Amphibia
One nation under Frogs They're invisible With ribbiting and lusting for bogs #humor #poetry #nature
The land of 10,000 glacial potholes
Glacial Lakes is a living record of ancient glacial activity dating 10,000 years back. Eskers, moraines, kames, and kettles form the...
Photos: The fall of summer
Not that I want to hurry summer along, but I'm getting really excited about the approaching maple leaf explosions and chilly fall nights....
Mushroom foraging and raptor watching: I'm not bluffing
Today I found a chanterelle the size of my face and a bunch of lobster mushrooms at Frontenac State Park. It finally dawned on me that a...
Seven Lady Sparrows
This morning, I watched a group of seven lady sparrows dining on seeds I scattered in the driveway while their gentleman counterparts...
A working class beetle's got nothing to lose
The streets grow quiet and cool as the sun sets. Neighbors putter around in their gardens, the smell of cooked food lingers in the air,...
The devil isn't home
I've hiked to Minnesota's most legendary geological wonder, the Devil's Kettle, on just two different occasions: once during early fall...
Mosquitos and frenchmen and bears, oh my
I decided to take a solo night on the Superior Hiking Trail during a weeklong trip to the North Shore. In anticipation of a longer solo...
