Posted July 21, 2014 from Seattle, WA “It’s not that expensive to take good care of natural areas.” -Kurt Zwar, former Park Steward at Magnuson Park in Seattle fired and charged with crimes for removing non-native invasive plants from a meadow In defense of nature, Green voters...
Posted July 24, 2014 from Seattle, WA I’m closing down my first 1/3 century effort at painting and beginning my second. My motto for the second, unlike the first, will be “Don’t paint hard, paint smart.” No the problem with that is I'd have to be smart. I’m just going...
Posted July 19, 2014 from Seattle WA We’re still tying up the loose ends from my beloved parents-in-law's passing, so we just got back from a trip to the land where they lived for 40 years in the New Mexico bootheel. Getting there involves a 7 mile...
Posted July 19, 2014 from Seattle WA We’re still tying up the loose ends from my beloved parents-in-law's passing, so we just got back from a trip to the land where they lived for 40 years in the New Mexico bootheel. Getting there involves a 7 mile...
Posted from Seattle May 24, 2014 Brian Pendleton and I got back last night from our GREAT MIDWEST WARBLER SAFARI. We landed in Chicago on May 16 and birded beginning Saturday May 17 through yesterday May 23 at 3 pm in Indiana. No, make that 5...
Posted May 5, 2014 from Seattle,WA updated June 4 & 29th 2014 If you ever get the dubious fortune of listening to a Parks Dept. presentation on why Cheasty must become a mountain bike park, you will hear plenty about the terrible condition and neglect the Cheasty Greenbelt has suffered from. ...
Posted April 28, 2014 from Seattle WA I’m running an ad in the A-Section of the Seattle Times on Tuesday April 29, 2014 against the gifting of eminent domain to the foreign company that wants to build the Keystone Pipeline. Here is the ad as it will...
Posted April 27, 2014 from Seattle, WA The songbirds are migrating north and our creek is becoming bath central. We live on Beacon Hill, where except for the Cheasty Greenbelt, creeks are all piped away to the Westport Sewage plant. So we installed a 15 foot creek...
Posted April 17, 2014 from Seattle, WA In 1998 I started the painting Birds of Beacon Hill. Thankfully, I started it on canvas. I got really excited about it for a while, but as often happens, I ran out of steam and into severe technical difficulties. ...
Posted April 9, 2014 from Seattle, WA It goes against the DNA of a green voter to vote against a Parks levy, I totally realize. But we must examine this impulse. “Parks” is only a word. A Park can Yellowstone National Park, or East Marginal Way...
Posted April 9, 2014 from Seattle, WA It goes against the DNA of a green voter to vote against a Parks levy, I totally realize. But we must examine this impulse. “Parks” is only a word. A Park can Yellowstone National Park, or East Marginal Way...
Posted April 6, 2014 from Seattle, WA Parks is trying hard to paint a picture of Cheasty as a worthless basket-case of a dying ruined forest, victim of neglect and non-native species. Let’s put aside for now the fact of Park’s responsibility in Cheasty’s current condition and also...
Posted from Seattle March 23, 2014 Here is a leaflet I've prepared for the upcoming meeting on the Cheasty Greenbelt Tuesday March 25, 6:30 to 8 pm at the Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. South (Seattle, WA) (Please come): Scroll to the end of this blog...
Posted March 13, 2014 from Seattle WA I rushed to get the painting Bottle Beach ready for last year’s Shorebird Festival in Hoquiam. I published a few copies of the early version and they were on sale at the Festival and at the store, but I...
posted from Seattle March 16, 2014 Cheasty has been a greenspace for approximately a century, and is now Seattle's last interior forest. The Parks Department wants to convert it to Mountain-Bike Central and has been attempting to keep the whole thing quiet so that neighbors and...
Posted Feb 23 2014 from Seattle We said goodby to CD Littlefield and headed down canyon through the old gates to the ranch yesterday morning. We had 15 minutes to spare in Tucson near the airport and stopped at a drain-way/arroyo --that mercifully wasn’t concretized-- to...
Posted from Seattle Feb 2, 2014 We have to make a trip down to the ranch where Delia’s late dearly beloved parents spent their last 38 years. Calling it a ranch may sound pretentious to some, as it is a conservation ranch with no livestock. It’s in...
Posted July 20, 2013 from Seattle, WA The Violet-green Swallow family living in a nestbox on our house has fledged three or more babies. Here is the Mom at the box. Mom had no problem with me taking photographs. I wanted to get a shot of...
Posted June 17, 2013 from Seattle, WA A tiny ad in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 will deliver a much-deserved thank you to folks at one of the NOAA buildings in Magnuson Park. The Cliff Swallow colony destroyed by the Seattle Parks Dept....
Posted from Seattle, WA, June 6, 2013 I’m running an ad in the Seattle Times on Friday, June 7 in the A-section that criticizes the styling of a $2.5 million sports car, the Bugatti Vitesse. Did someone just snicker and did I hear the word “envy?” ...
Posted from Seattle, WA June 5, 2013 The Bottle Beach painting that I force-marched into production for the Shorebird Festival is back on the easel (see last blog.) The two big Sandpipers in the left center have left for Copper River, leaving more of an open...
Posted June 5, 2013 from Seattle, WA Butyl Creek is a 10 ft. recirculating creek in our backyard on residential Beacon Hill. In Seattle all the creeks were sent underground to the Westport sewage station long ago, so birds, who all love and need to bathe,...