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...

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

( Taricha granulosa . One of the many good things in life.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

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...

( Plethodon dunni ; a melanistic specimen, lacking the wide, yellow-green back stripe and mottling typical of the breed. Another ...

The wildlife of the North Pacific rainforest is famously reserved; where the East has its flashy cardinals , red efts , and indigo bunti...

(An African spurred tortoise [Centrochelys sulcata] , just short of a yard long, receiving the adulation of passersby at the Northw...

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

( Garter snake [ Thamnophis , suspect sirtalis pickeringii ], something short of 3 feet, recently awakened, and probably pregnant.) A...

So I'm breezing along a bike trail through rural country, feeling the exhilaration you get on a bike in Indian summer, when sudden...

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

(Found this garter snake [Thamnophis sirtalis] asleep under a tarp that had been pulled over a stack of gardening supplies sometime last...

(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...

The late hour kept me running a brisk 50 mph (the maximum controllable speed on gravel), so that an apparent chunk of slate in the ...

(This gold dust day gecko [Phelsuma laticauda] was spotted on a deck on Orcas Island, just over the Canada-US border. He's far...

( Ambystoma macrodactylum. Politely displaying the reason for both the common name and binomial.)

(My nephew and I went fishing all day a few weekends ago. We loaded the boat in his truck, drove across the county, launched in a lar...

(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...