In early May, I came upon two Barred Owlets in Briarlake Forest Park. It was a deep, beautiful, and unexpectedly shared experience. Yet, a humorous encount...

I wandered this morning while daylight was awakening. I had no agenda but to wander, see what I could see, slow down...notice. Sometimes on wanders like this...

When I pause I can see it: the first shoots breaking through the soil, drawn by the sun's rays and the pull of nature's rhythm. It is time. In fact, it goes...

This summer, the open road stretched out before me as I sat in the passenger seat and took in sights and deep conversations. I saw the rocky Oregon coast an...

I'm not sure how I ignored the sound for so long. That squawking -- somewhere near our backyard, and loud enough to hear through the closed studio windows. ...

The brilliant red cardinal has been on those bare branches for much of today. I saw him several times from my own, warmer perch – I, resting on the couch in ...

"What stage of life are you in?" I was asked this question today. While it seems like a basic question, it really only is on the surface. It is easy to say, ...

A friend called to tell me that a woman in a nearby neighborhood was tagging and releasing Monarch Butterflies in her garden that afternoon. Maybe I would li...

I needed to go back to the place from which I'd started...to take a closer look. Right around me. The April days had (literally) been filled with showers, a...

There is a lot to be said for just sitting and looking. Waiting. Not knowing what, if anything, will change, and finding the surprises in the nuances. That’s...

[Thoughts on mindset...cognizant that we aren't in control but how often I try...] I have been thinking a lot about how to enter this year -- a year that com...

It has happened a lot lately. I set out to wander and take photos, and have my camera mounted with my long lens. Just in case I might see birds I want to p...

I awoke to snow this time last week. I didn’t really expect it. Any of it, actually. They’d said earlier in the week that it would snow, but snow is rare in ...

It was even more than I expected. I have always been captured by Suzy Schultz’s artwork. Her incredible artistic gifts, and the work she has done to develop ...

This is one of the early photos I took, the summer of 2014. I had begun picking up my camera almost daily, walking the same route. This sunflower was growi...