I like to photograph flowers, so when my wife asked if I wanted to join her on a hike in the Biocore Prairie with the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, I cheerfully agreed. The actual focus of the hike…
In my previous post, Photography is for the birds, I give the impression that I never make much of an attempt to photograph birds. To be fair to my photo subjects and myself, I should point out that although I…
My wife's a birdwatcher. When we hike together she's usually looking up with binoculars in hand while I'm looking around with camera in hand. I've never made much of an attempt to photograph birds because they're usually small, far away,…
I took a walk in Owen Conservation Park today to get a nature fix. Much to my surprise, I came back with this picture of pails. I don't know what they're for, but since the plants are sitting in mud…
When I woke up yesterday morning and shuffled out into the kitchen this scene was waiting to be photographed. OK, I will admit that I moved some cups, plates, and muffins out of the way, but the flowers, the sunlight,…
"Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground.Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down." -- Stephen Stills Maybe it's because of the generation into which I was born. When I think of World War II, I think…
Plate tectonics, subduction zones, magma, volcanoes, such are the facts of life in The Ring of Fire. The Cascade Mountains that stretch from Canada to California are a manifestation of these forces of nature. On May 18, 1980, they contributed…
Something has me thinking about summer. No doubt it's the cold, wet weather. Every summer I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful week of vacation with other family members on Washington Island, which is located off the tip of Door County in northeastern…