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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Most of the time when I travel on business I manage to find at least a few idle moments in the morning to sneak out of whatever hotel is serving as home for the trip and get a little bird watching done. However every so often a trip is so short and business so compacted […]