Whilst photographing the Pacific poison oak featured in the last profile I encountered this rather striking twice-stabbed stink bug (which is…
One of my pet peeves is people leaving their dogs unleashed on trails and out in the woods, and I’ve…
I was strolling along the Lacamas Creek Trail in Camas, Washington last week, happily photographing spring wildflowers, when I noticed…
Until last September Thuja plicata (western red-cedar) was the only conifer I could consistently identify, but that was only one of the…
When I first conceived of the trip to sw Oregon/nw California that I wrote about in ‘Pivoting’, I had hoped…
I am finally ready to start profiling the so called cedars of our region. The first thing I have to…
I got clean and sober on the 1st day of fall in 2009. I did not choose that day for…
When I moved to Vancouver, Washington in the late 70s I occasionally went smelt ‘dipping’ with a high school friend…
When Pam and I headed into the Columbia River Gorge last Sunday one of my hopes was that we’d find…
This past weekend Pam and I took our regular late winter field trip to the central Columbia River Gorge. The…