Block 61 at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie has a rare quality that I'm always seemingly chasing: the feeling that something important used to be here… and that the land is still deciding what to…

[Content warning: brief discussion of dead animals; 1 graphic photo of dead people] Most of this little monthly update is about Tamil Nadu. Here, enormous vinyl billboards like the one shown above…

After consulting the weather forecast, we decided to take another degree to the south to avoid a few squally, rainy, grey days. So far this strategy has succeeded, with zero drops of rain instead of…

Black kites, or "tobi" birds at Enoshima. Absolutely majestic / 10 but also an absolute menace as they are like crows on steroids and will divebomb you if they see any food. One chap had a bent wing…

In February, I was back on St. Croix for a week of vacation. Erin was already on the island for a three-week experiment in working remotely, Malia had been with her for the first week, then I joined…

This afternoon, about half of the flowers of our magnolia opened.

8:00a Up! 8:30a Head to Paris Disney! Take M9 to Havre-Caumartin. Take RER A to Marne-La-Vallée Cleared Disneyland Security Drop backpacks at Disneyland Hotel. 10:30a Enter the park Get snack and…

Abiqua Falls in Oregon's Willamette Valley. No official trail, some bushwhacking and a muddy scramble to get there, but the basalt amphitheater at the bottom is worth every step

The Norway train map 2025 has got an update. There are only minor changes. The biggest change is the introduction of Snälltåget service from Oslo to Malmö.

Yesterday was the spring equinox, and thankfully I'd just gotten over a really grim cold that made my sinuses feel like they were full of molten lava. So, yay! Happy Spring! Friday is my dedicated…

When I used to canoe camp, we would always schedule in at least one day a trip to rest, catch up, and just be. Skiathos, in the off-season, is the equivalent of a layover day. We slept in, REALLY…

Before reaching Vietnam Continuing from the last post, Badri and I took a flight from the Brunei International Airport to Kuala Lumpur on the 12th of December 2024. We reached Kuala Lumpur in the…

Hi Ski friends, Short answer: Heck yes! Even though I have snow, the daffodils are poking through at my cabin up by Cle Elum Lake! Today, Saturday, was grooming by Nick at Trollhaugen and the…

Through the ‘back end’ most of my Pikey energy had been directed north and I managed to spend a few days on the Broads. I mostly fished in comfortable conditions, caught a few nice fish and had a…

I climbed a mountain this morning! This is actually my second climb for the year but, today writing resulted! This was my usual local training hike, a mere 750ft-ish assent. I like it because it's…

Another warm day here in the vicinity of the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The temperatures would reach 79° at their height in the late afternoon. I rode out on Yagi, my TW200, at around 3:00 p.m.…

My house sits on a third of an acre, bounded by a ditch on two sides. The bank is pockmarked with holes, leaving me certain that the ditch is swarming with crayfish. Yet in five years, I have only…

2017 Today we had some time to visit the Tunel Spaza in Sarajevo. During the Bosnian Civil War in the early 1990s, Sarajevo was under siege by the Bosnian Serbs. In order to facilitate the movement…

Atlanta is famous for its horrible traffic, and yesterday's traffic was horrible, just as we expected. The worst part was some side streets which had cars parked on either side of the street, a 2 way…

March 21, 2026 I've been busy working outside for the past three days. A friend and I started by cutting up the remaining log stack and splitting about half of it for firewood. Then Thursday and…

Yesterday I went to get my barnet cut at the barbers in town. On the way there I opened up eBird and decided to log every single bird I saw on my way through the park, and I even added in audio from…

It's been rumoured for months, and finally this week there was official confimation: Trenitalia has the location for its maintenance facility for its Frecciarossa high speed trains in France.…

I crossed that damn road . I found a tunnel running underneath. I wonder if non-human animals use it...? across the road there are interesting observations on human influence I can make. firstly,…

Mary Cleary, member 16561, recently suggested this song by 'The Kruger Brothers' for our music to watch clouds by section. The post Watches the Clouds Roll By appeared first on Cloud Appreciation…

I wrote recently about formative pruning of Buddleia, and I used the phrase “...there is practically nothing you can do to kill them!” I've had a couple of humorous messages from Patrons ( waves…

This is a trip I have wanted to embark upon for over a month now but the rivers up there have been in the fields for months on and off, for me as a travelling angler I have to have the conditions…

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today my wife and i went for a walk. (she's been wanting to in preparation for our upcoming anniversary trip to vietnam so i said sure let's go) it's our first time exploring the neighborhood…

In the shadow of Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in the UK, is a wonderful hike to Steall Falls, the second-tallest waterfall in the UK. On the way to the hike, you’ll also pass by a filming…

The best cities to visit in Japan aren't always ones you read about in guide books The post Japan’s Most Underrated Cities appeared first on Japan Starts Here.

Vivere è come scalare le montagne… Non basta essere forti ma anche avere qualcuno all’altro capo della corda pronto a tenerti quando la mano si apre, il piede scivola o fai la scelta sbagliata… Solo…

Sun’s out, so in to the water.

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney

new garden, new bush tutorial.

I took these shots after today’s run, mostly around the sports fields at Burnaby Lake. There was water everywhere. And geese. As is my wont, I have used the totally retro Polaroid theme from…

Last Friday and Saturday, Sara and I attended the Indiana Association of Home Educators ' annual convention in the uncomfortably-named 1 town of French Lick, Indiana. French Lick and nearby West…

Water vole displacement activity continued this week with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. The translocation will happen over the weekend and next week,...

The past couple of days… Nikki and I have been gallivanting around the area. We aren’t doing anything in particular, just spending Mom-n-Daughter time together before I leave in just over a week.…

rationale Cathy doesn’t like going to the movies. I like going to the movies. So for years, we compromised, by not going to the movies. But a few years ago, she bravely got out of her comfort…

Mellbreak-ing Bad The Kirkstile Inn has to be one of the best pubs in the land. But you have to earn those pints of Loweswater Gold and boy, did we earn them. This actually could have been a really…

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It is 11:00 PM as of I am writing this. I stepped outside for a break. Then I saw the vast black sky covered with twinkling stars and a planet (Jupiter). I saw the constellations Orion and The Big…

A journey, with a road bike, on a summer day through an obscure local village

Placed honey super boxes on the bee hives today. These boxes is where worker bees will store nectar and turn it into honey.

Colonies are highly selective when choosing larvae to rear queen. Standard (grafting-based) queen rearing methods are not. In this post I briefly discuss the science of larval selection, and then…

An hour under the plum and almond blossom reveals bumblebees, wasps, chafer beetles, pollen thieves, and a ladybird looking for something else entirely.

I woke before dawn and so was in place to capture early morning lighting of the Sangre de Cristo mountains visible from my campsite. For reference: Challenger Point 2x Zoom with binos <a…

Listen, I am just here to narrate what I am seeing. I claim no part or sides in this airborne scuffle I just witnessed, other than that of an inhabitant of the territory being fought over. It begins…