Nature – The Dilettante's Field Manual

Swimming Against the Current

Two days with two National Geographic photographers on the edge of a salmon stream.

The Heroic Reef

The corals of Varadero have endured five hundred years of human conflict, but they may not survive Colombia’s fragile peace.

Coast range sunset

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13125492&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=c96d0a&fullscreen=1 Best overlook near Corvallis for watching the sunset. Set the timer at 3-second intervals and captured about 1200 images over the span of an hour.

The hearth killed more poets than alcohol, according to William B. Yeats. But like Jim Harrison, I prefer intense domesticity. Or maybe that’s just what I say because that’s what I have and I’m of no mind to change it. I fully believe that any writer has to master the skill of capturing a senseContinue reading “Hiking with kids”