Apr
12
2010
I’ve joked that Facebook has eaten both my blog and my Twitter stream and you know, it’s hardly a joke. In contrast to this dear old blog, which I’ve really enjoyed, but also wrestled with, I find that I post regularly and often on Facebook. Of course, the posts tend to be shorter and often [...]
Tags: facebook, petersonfieldguides
Jul
24
2009
Self-portrait by Matthew Sarver Good news for all of you who enjoy well-written, thoughtful, authoritative, and nicely-illustrated blog posts (and if that’s you, what are you doing here?). My buddy Matt Sarver has been cultivating his web presence, including launching a new blog, appropriately called The Modern Naturalist. Matt’s a great birder, naturally, but he’s also [...]
Tags: Blogroll, blogs, matthewsarver, naturewriting
May
26
2009
…if you don’t stop and smell the roses along the way! Rough Greensnake near Trap Pond State Park, DE sunning on road and climbing multiflora rose 19 May 2009
Tags: lyrics, multiflora, snakes, trappond
Nov
07
2008
I’m back from Mexico (as of Tuesday, so I got to watch the election returns!) and leading field trips at the 15th annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. I’ve got some stories and photos from both sides of the border I’m anxious to share, plus I still want to wrap up the Panama press trip [...]
Tags: duct tape, kingranch, rgvfestival, riograndevalley, sharonlynn, snakes, texas
Sep
28
2008
One of the real pleasures I get from photography is the details I see only when I get in from the field, download the images and start looking at them closely. Today, I saw that I’d taken an accidental self-portrait in the eye of this Bull Frog–you can see me hunched over the camera and [...]
Tags: frogs, produce, watergarden