At 8: 47AM this morning I was scheduled to depart Portland International Airport aboard a Continental jet bound for a connection in Houston and then onward to Corpus Christi, Texas. Hurricane Ike changed that. The event to which I was travelling, the 2008 Hummer/Bird Celebration in Rockport, Texas, has been cancelled by its organizers and […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
To Be or Not to Be a Bee
When is a bee not a bee? When it’s a fly. That’s what I learned the other day while out on an abandoned yarding road near my home in Scappoose armed with my new 100mm macro lens. I was actually looking for butterflies but as this is September and northwest Oregon is one of the […]
Make The Difference
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.So wrote Robert Frost in the final stanza of his oft quoted The Road Not Taken. For many years now, this […]
Blog of the Weekend: The Dude Abides
To be completely honest, the reason I picked up the copy of Cathleen Falsani’s latest book Sin Boldly that I noticed on the new release table of the bookshop I happened to be in at the time was due to its displaying a picture of a dragonfly on the cover. However after thumbing only a […]