Rusty Ring

I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas Just like the kind I used to know With raincoats dripping And blue tarps whipping As thirty...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

( Ardea herodias. Standing about two feet tall here.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

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

(Fruit of the hawthorn [Crataegus] , these often persist into winter, where they add needed colour to the soggy North Coast landscape. Aft...

to passing autumn the pampas grass waves goodbye, goodbye Shirao

(Even in midwinter on the North Pacific Coast.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(Cygnus columbianus.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(This is Dacrymyces chrysospermus, the orange jelly mushroom. It grows on deadwood in moist forests – two things we have aplenty here ...

Winter solitude— In a world of one colour The sound of wind. Bashō

(Trumpeters [Cygnus buccinator] . Brief stopover over two foggy days. Watching this large flock of very big birds light on this small lak...

(Huge black cloud rolled in on a brilliant sunny day today, and suddenly we were being hammered with bean-sized hail. Not uncommon for...

winter rain time to unseal the new tea Issa (Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com and a generous photographer .)

Back in 2014 I shared a little one-man Christmas cheer game I indulge in at this time of year, a simple Google search string that fills...

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...

(Ardea herodias.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

(This is Garrard Creek, a tributary of the Chehalis, about two weeks ago. The parallel lanes of trees normally line the tops of high ban...