Rusty Ring

Over the past eight years I've posted regular reports on the welfare of local starfish as they endured (and some populations beca...

(This is Phytolacca americana , called poke in the American South and Midwest, where it's a rampant weed. [And also a wild edible, th...

(Turtles have always been rare on the North Coast. Unlike the other three reptiles that manage to survive here [ this one and this one ...

"It's not that the wind is blowing. It's what the wind is blowing." My friend Brent. [Who informs me now that he ...

(While walking off-trail in a local forest park, I was surprised to find this sprinkler head in the middle of the woods. After some cont...

Though this seems at first glance avant-garde sculpture, in real life it's the famous one-legged torii of Nagasaki. You can fil...

Healthy adult P. ochreceus. I conducted my informal annual survey of a local beach a few weeks ago and found the wasting-syndrome si...

Insight from a sangha-mate on Mastodon (appropriately enough): One of the most important ideas to sit with – amid the convulsion ...

Salal (Gaultheria shallon) Western red cedar ( Thuja plicata ) (A particularly disturbing consequence of ...

(Sadly, only in the rearview mirror in the literal sense; not yet metaphorically.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(How hot has it been here? So hot that rabbits are "splooting" [hunkering down on cooler bare ground in plain sight...

Maimed P. ochraceus with a replacement ray coming. So here we are again , back at the usual beach, counting starfish. (On a -5 tide!...

(There they go again, those ghostly white rhodies . This time it's another bush, about 100 yards from the house, suddenly covered with...

This video is both brief and necessary. We live in apocalyptic times. We're not the first; there have been many other apocalypti...

Will the real Pisaster brevispinus please stand up? Looking again at the photo I published at the top of last week's post , purport...

Not Pisaster brevispinus, unfortunately. (Update, 15 September 2021: my report of a mature Pisaster brevispinus in this survey was sa...

(The world is still talking about the 40+ degree weather we on the North Coast experienced this week. I've lived places where that ...

Last week I trolled a few beaches in Whatcom County with two droogies from college. We were taking advantage of passably low tides and t...

Evasterias troscheli We had a minus-4 tide the other day and I got in an epic mile-long wade along the tidelands. The biological di...