Rusty Ring

( Heracleum maximum ; classic native of the North Coast jungle.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

When I was young I didn't understand what I saw. But I saw. (Photo courtesy of John Messina, the U.S. National Archives and R...

(Appearing also on My Corner of the World .)

I am of the nature to grow old; there is no way to escape growing old. I am of the nature to have ill health; there is no way to e...

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

We're catching a lot of reality these days. First a plague swept the planet, laying waste to technocratic pretentions of invuln...

(The photo I shared two months ago, of Lysichiton americanus in flower, was taken in this same swamp. Now the flowers are gone, b...