Wrapping up the winter season of backyard birding, the first winter in our new backyard. We moved to a new location this past October, and when a nature and bird lover moves from one area to another, it’s not just…

Have you ever imagined alternate explanations of the physical world, other worlds and universes, or contemplated that size is relevant within the vastness of space? One day, while photographing a simple bubble floating on the water, I focused in closer…

Not many posts this winter, I've been busy writing poetry and the endless manuscript that's fun to work on but may forever be unfinished business, along with other wintery projects. 

Some new videos for the youtube channel so hope you…

How can it be 2025? It seems we have been busy and yet not a lot has changed, at our age that's not such a bad thing. 

We've recorded another home studio album, still in the mixing and mastering stages…

March 3 is World Wildlife Day, in 2024 and every year. I'm celebrating it this year with a video slideshow of some of my favourite wildlife photos (and yes, I consider insects to be wildlife). It’s primarily a slide show…

Have you ever seen one of these? No! What is it? A fungi?

When I first spotted the pale, thin sprigs poking up from the leaf litter along my walking path, I thought I’d discovered something unusual. Some grew in…

It’s World Wildlife Day, and by tradition I like to look back and post some of my favourite wildlife photos. As a nature lover with a photography hobby, my success in getting an outstanding shot of animals in the wild…

Another Christmas past, and as we settle into the in-between days before the New Year arrives, I confess it’s one of my favourite parts of the holiday season. This is the time when a semblance of normal returns to our…

“If I were an artist, trying to paint this ballet of birds, 
Would I find my brushstrokes, as lacking as my words? 
Every time I raise my eyes, something new on the shore, 
Seasons change, a shame there’s names for…

I’ve got a passion for backyard birding and nature photography. A few years ago I started reading about local endangered and invasive species in forests and wetlands, something to watch for on my nature walks.   

It was only last year…

Don’t you just love the month of April? It kicks off with a celebration of fools, can be murky and fickle at first, but for me, it’s the actual beginning of spring here at 44° north. (I don’t trust calendars…

Anthropause: The reduction of human activity caused by the pandemic, and its impact on nature and wildlife. 

Conservationists are still studying the evidence, but it wasn't all bad news for nature. We could say the same.  Living here on the…

Do you ever spy
something fly by 
out of the corner of your eye
that you can’t identify? 

I enjoy my morning coffee sitting beside a large window facing the lake, and it’s not unusual to hear me say Wassat?…