exploring nature’s infinite connections
Contemplating what draws us to certain subject matter can be quite a thought-provoking exercise. For many photographs, there is typically a careful, deductive thought process going on. Whether it is a conscious one or not also plays a part. With time often being a...
Before starting this post, I thought it wise just to go back and take a look at my Twenty Nineteen post of yearly favorites just to get a sense of where I was then versus now. I complained like I usually do about not getting out enough or not writing enough as I had...
Last Sunday, I finished a 9-day training course with the Climate Reality Project. It was virtual for the first time this year due to the pandemic, but also enabled them to train 10,000 new people around the world in a little more than a week. They join the existing...
More plastic than fish by weight by 2050. That is just an amazingly horrifying prediction. For sure, in a year where "alarming trends" seem to be hitting us from everywhere, it is easy to feel numb by now. The year 2020 may just well go down in history unmatched in...
Happy Arbor Day! Many people celebrate Arbor Day by planting a tree (or trees), which is wonderful. Picking the right tree for the right place is important. This is especially important in urban or suburban planning situations where you want to achieve the best value...
With our 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaching quickly this week, now is as good as time as any to examine our primordial connections to our planet, and perhaps the universe. Not just because a movement started 50 years ago by Denis Hayes and others in...
Questions. Thousands and thousands of questions. Ever since I can remember, this has been one constant in my life. Could this be why I was drawn to math and science? After all, a constant craving for answers cannot go completely...
Z is for Zero As my final entry in the A-to-Z Challenge, a countdown that started at the beginning of April, the word zero seems appropriate to finish it off. It can be a word of finality, or an absolute start from nothing. A beginning and an ending. I started...
I will admit much of the time I spend in the field is simply looking at things. All sorts of things, even if it is just the ground. Part of it out of a natural curiosity of what there is to see, the other part trying to make some sort of order out of chaos to fit...