exploring nature’s infinite connections
One year ago, I wrote about a bit of a rabbit hole I stepped into regarding the name of a local city-owned nature preserve and confusion over some naming on the maps of a couple of streams that run through or around the Plum Brook Nature Preserve (aka. Sterling...
As the 2024 Autumn Equinox approaches next week, I am trying to reflect on why I haven't made a post for what has essentially been all summer this year. It isn't unusual that summertime is generally my least "productive" time for photography. I found a post I had in...
Today, I came across a quote from Rachel Carson that I liked about the ocean. It also encouraged me to think about all the fortunate interactions with the sea I've had over the years, especially the underwater ones. Indeed, one of the most memorable was interacting...
Autumn colors are coming to a peak (edit: now past) here in Southeast Michigan, about right on time this year. They dissipated a bit faster than I would have liked. I took an opportunity to visit a nearby 90-acre nature preserve. Places like this are far and few...
The vernal equinox is upon us again and that means it is a great time to pay attention to the often-overlooked flooded areas in our forests and even small woodland areas. What some consider to be "just puddles" - many creatures call these places home and essential to...
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...
W is for Waves Power. Rythym. Tranquil. Movement. Enchanting. Random. Flow. Big. Carry. Mighty. Destroy. Progressive. Undertow. Backwash. Breaker. Swell. Soft.
As I was editing some images this morning, all I kept thinking in my head is "Thank you glaciers for providing such nice subject matter!" It was a reminder that the Great Lakes region is filled with rugged coastlines courtesy of the glaciers that receded from here....