Rusty Ring

( Boletus edulis. Part of a generous outbreak that burst up not far from my house during the record rains of last month. Some of them w...

(Another electrical artefact from an old shed that's figured in these pages before . This time it's a full grown tree used as a p...

( Stryx varia .)

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(A point I've made before .) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(This old house, near my childhood home, was once the residence of a family who owned and operated a dairy farm on the premises. The farm...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Altocumulus undulatus clouds. The tree in the foreground is a sequoia [Sequoiadendron giganteum] . It's not native here, but intro...

(Feral apples are almost always the best-tasting, and you can't beat the price. With all the former farmland around here, the scrumpi...

(Another rivetting instalment in the saga of the wayfaring poke [Phytolacca americana] that's mysteriously turned up in the neighb...

( Malus fusca . Native to the North Coast, in my home county it's a common understory tree, flourishing on the margins and in clear...

(Appearing also on My Corner of the World .)

(Suspect Phyllostachys vivax . This is very big stuff - diameters up to 4 inches and heights to maybe 60 feet. This grove occurs in the ...

(On my recent visit to Spokane I was struck by the sci-fi aesthetics of this building going up on the far side of the river. The c...

(This ancient outbuilding, one of a few derelict structures still surviving from what was a working dairy farm near my home when...

(I made this fudo [look left; hanging from the bell] in 2009, for friends in Spokane County. When I took care of their farm for a few...

(The Spokane Regional Health District is an arresting sight, inspired as it apparently was by the architecture of West and Central Afric...

(This 20-odd year apple met its end last week, a victim of its own success. In the late 20th century, varieties such as these, bearing he...