Rusty Ring

Matsuo Bashō (芭蕉) was a wandering Zen hermit of the Edo period, as well as an accomplished poet. Popularly considered the father of mo...

(Here's another bullfrog [Rana (Lithobates) catesbeiana], rather better lit and differentiated from her background. She's a w...

Could they be sutras? In the temple well frogs chant Kansetsu (POV photo of well courtesy of Gary Meulemans and Unsplash.com.)

( Rana [Lithobates] catesbeiana. Invasive and destructive here on the North Coast, but extremely common.) Appearing also on My...

(Rana cascadae) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(This is Pseudacris regilla again . He's appeared here in the past, but this one is about the size of my thumbnail, part of a cr...

(It's happened again : tadpoles growing on the beach. This time it's a brackish puddle by the headlands. I don't know if f...

(I found this Tupperware tub washed up on the sand, literally miles from any fresh water. Spring squalls filled it with rainwater, and s...

I was out to the zendo a few weeks back, doing some grounds work on a beautiful spring day with no-one around but the warm sun and ...