Posted October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA Updated December 25 (!), 2017 Most of 2016 and 2017 I was curating painting files and writing my book. Those two endeavors are winding down a little bit and I'm picking up a brush again, and gosh am I...
posted October 2, 2017 from Seattle, WA The ad shown above is scheduled to run in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, October 3 2017, A section. (Ads have much longer timelines than news stories. There is anguish on my part over the tragic event in Los Vegas...
Posted September 24, 2017 from Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA Change the words to the old song: The CREEK goes on forever and the party never ends! . A rare bird--a Blackpoll Warbler-- for Washington State showed up to take a bath and be part of the ongoing party...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Sept. 4 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the fact that the border wall is predicated on a mischaracterization. It's not on the border, it's far on the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, August 15, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the massive land giveaway that is the border wall. It also makes a note of the wall's collision with the...
Posted from Seattle, WA on Sept. 4 2017 I'm running an ad in the Seattle Times Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 that attempts to draw attention to the fact that the border wall is predicated on a mischaracterization. It's not on the border, it's far on the...
posted from Seattle, WA on August 14, 2017 I'll blame it on the English language: the title of this blog could mean different things. What it's meant to mean is that I don't finish paintings anymore, I keep working on them indefinitely. [caption id="attachment_10262" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Writing...
Posted June 7, 2017 from Seattle Washington Luckily, the open season on shooting upland birds and water birds and all mammals and anything else you want to shoot, including stop signs, with a camera appears to have been extended through the spring 2017 in Washington state. In...
Posted from Seattle, WA on May 19, 2017 I will be running the ad shown above in the Seattle Times A-section on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. If I were reading the ad the first thing I would like to know is where the citation for the opening...
Posted May 1 2017 from Seattle, WA and updated May 4, 2017 The theme of this blog is birds and water. The Warblers have arrived in Seattle on their spring migration north. Butyl Creek was busy on May 3 with Warblers of four species, Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped,...
Posted March 8, 2017 from Seattle, WA We went to the wedding of the very wonderful son of long-time friends and his very wonderful fiance in New Orleans. You know you're old when at 11 pm after dancing all night you're shocked to see a Party...
Posted from Rodeo, New Mexico Jan 5, 2016 I guess it's the 6th Extinction, but the Christmas Counts were down this year. We found a Gray Flycatcher on the Portal Count and we flushed five Montezuma Quail on the Peloncillo Count. The next day we went...
Posted December 5, 2016 from Seattle, WA Our friend Brian Pendleton has been working on his Washington state yearbird list this year and yesterday we had the thrill of being there for Number 350. Brian had been fearing that 350 might be a Mute Swan, non-native...
Posted from Seattle on Nov. 29, 2016 The text of the ad reads: In an often-repeated unconstitutional property-rights abuse, the Dakota Access pipeline owner was gifted with the kingly power of eminent domain to take land from unwilling Americans. This subsidy unlevels the playing field, & distorts...
Posted October 9, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, today in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate change...
Posted September 6 and Updated October 24, 2016 from Seattle, WA In Late September it was time to go down and check up on the ranch, where the 750ft. well no longer can get water up to the gravity-tank that supplies water to the house and...
Posted October 6, 2016 from Seattle, WA I have been trying to discipline myself to stop painting and concentrate instead on producing a book but that’s going so badly I fall off that wagon and paint now and then. One thing I hate is not having...
Posted September 8, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running an ad for Initiaitive 732 on Sunday, Sept. 10 in the A—section of the Seattle Times. For more information on I-732, here is the campaign’s website: Yes on I-732 YES ON I-732 Act NOW on climate...
Posted from Seattle,WA on August 15, updated August 18 & 25, 2016 The ad shown below should appear in the Sunday, August 25th A-section of the Seattle Times. It advocates a yes on I-732 as a "middle path." I ran the following ad tomorrow Tuesday August 16...
Posted August 7, 2016 from Seattle, WA. Welcome to Washington!!! This Snowy Egret in Fife last weekend (Aug 1) was the first ever recorded in Pierce County. Snowy Egrets, like Great Egrets, may be making a push northward. Snowy Egrets are active foragers and this...
Posted July 25, updated August 20, 2016 from Seattle, WA. I am so delighted with the last and maybe final incarnation of Orcas in the Salish Sea that I am publishing it at 12” x 36”. The price will be $40. I do not have the...
Posted May 23, 2016 from Seattle, WA I’m running a low-rise ad, shown above, in the Seattle Times on Tuesday May 24, 2016 that should appear in the A-section. The ad singles out Oregon but is implicitly critical of the movement of DoTs nationally, including US...