There’s nothing like travel to generate new story ideas and fresh inspiration. If it’s a pleasure trip, you’re visiting interesting, sometimes unusual places. You’re encountering new people along the way, and you have fresh opportunities to witness drama unfolding as fisherfolk dump their catch, black-clad punks gather at parks to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Inspiration Large and Small
If I pay attention while I’m traveling, creative inspiration is everywhere. Sometimes it’s big inspiration, as when I visited Julius Caesar’s grave and found myself reflecting on time, power, the march of civilization, the impulsivity of friends…. People still leave flowers and personal items on JC’s grave, two millennia after … Continue reading
Birds
Here are a bunch of birds I’ve photographed over the past several years. It’s possible for a wildly energetic soul to see more than 900 bird species in North America, though it would probably take about your whole life to do so. These photos represent just 18 of those 900+ … Continue reading
Side Trips
I love getting out into the wild to look at birds. Of course, on such journeys one can’t help but stumble on other wild creatures, as well as fascinating plants, geology, and other components of any respectable ecosystem (even the mall has geology and limited life forms). Discovering random wonders … Continue reading
No Other Like It
The bird below is a Rock Sandpiper, one of three I found in early Nov. 2012 amid rain and crashing surf on a jetty in Oregon. The bird books insist that in late fall and winter this species should have a dark breast. This particular bird has some dark on … Continue reading
A new site for writers and photographers. With birds.
Hello and welcome. I’m in the process of revising this website, which will focus on writing, photography, and their ties to travel & nature. Please keep checking back. The site will grow and evolve in the coming weeks, and I hope you’ll choose to be a part of what I’m … Continue reading