Don’t be deceived by the innocent look this newborn Nazca Booby, less than a month old, is sharing. It’s quite likely that she aided in the untimely demise of her younger sibling.
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Fire on the Mountain, Bogota
It’s not every day that a fire breaks out on a mountain just as you click the shutter for a long exposure.
Continue readingRemembering the Ecuadorian Potato Lady
“Que loco.”
That’s what the vendor said to me when I asked her if she’s ever counted her potatoes.
Continue readingWahkeena Nature Preserve, Ohio – Notebook and Images
I needed a solid dose of nature after the three flights (and two delays) that brought me from Nice to Columbus, Ohio, just before midnight the night before, and after a quick search, was compelled to stop at the Wahkeena Nature Preserve for three reasons: it was easily accessible off of US Route 33 on… Continue reading
Chasing Redheads in the Forest: Up Close With a Pair of Magellanic Woodpeckers
20 images from ‘Picasso and Paper’ – Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025
Sign of Resistance – Willoughby Hills, Ohio
David Joyce is the Republican representative for Ohio’s 14th Congressional District. You know who Musk is.
I spotted this at a small plaza at the intersection of Bishop and Chardon Roads in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. It’s a solidly conservative area so I decided it would be an instructive exercise to watch its evolution over the following days.
Day 1 – stapled to a utility wall, facing west; day 2 – laying on the ground (as pictured), either torn or ripped from the pole; and day 3 – gone. Either thrown away or blown away.
Harrison Dillard Sculpture, Berea, Ohio
This is a sculpture of track & field legend Harrison Dillard, the only man to win Olympic titles in the 100 meter dash and the 110m hurdles. And, one of my favorite athletes of all time. The life sized tribute, created by Ohio sculptor David Deming, has pride of place in a pleasantly shaded spot… Continue reading
Nine Early Winter Outdoor Still Lifes, Ohio
Biden Out, Harris In? Headlines from France and Italy
A 72-Hour Bout With Cholera
I’ve read Love in the Time of Cholera twice. It’s among my favorite books. The first time was in the early winter of 1992, when I lived in a small one-room cabin in the woods near Athens, Ohio. At the time I was preparing for a road trip three friends and I were about to… Continue reading
Laguna Nimez Reserve, El Calafate – The Best 90-Minute Birding Experience in Patagonia
A richly diverse sanctuary in southern Argentina that provides remarkably easy access to a phenomenally wide array of Andean and Patagonian birdlife.
Continue reading“Werken”: Bernardo Oyarzun’s Mapuche Messenger
Nassau’s Pompey Museum of Slavery – a 65-Second Visitors’ Notebook
So you’ve got time to kill in Nassau and want to do something besides eat, drink or shop? Here’s your best option: The Pompey Museum of Slavery and Emancipation. Located in the aptly-named Vendue building – French for ‘sold’ – the museum is rightly described as a Bahamian national treasure, an important symbol of how –… Continue reading
In Transit: Nassau to Miami
For the Window Seats and In Transit series, here’s a gallery of 12 images snapped on Monday during American Airlines flight 4769, a quick hop from the Bahamian capital Nassau to Miami, south Florida’s international hub that’s home to the least transit-friendly airport I’ve experienced in the post-9/11 world. It started out well. Immigration went… Continue reading
“I don’t want to be here anymore.” – Bogota Taxi Driver Monologues
I stepped into the cab at the intersection of Carrera 10 and Calle 4, one of Bogota’s many blurred frontiers between civility and third world urban reality. In heavy traffic, it’s about a 15 to 20 minute ride to the skyscrapers and modern high-rise apartments and shopping malls of the centro internacional to the north,… Continue reading
‘The world should laugh more. But after eating.’
Leaving Cali
There are three toilet stalls in the men’s room of Cali’s Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport’s international departures terminal, none of which have toilet seats. But one of the police rooms just beyond security has a state of the art x-ray machine through which one can see virtually every orifice of the human body. From my… Continue reading
Headlands Beach State Park, Off Season
Project: Ice – Review
There’s a lot to like about PROJECT: ICE, a new feature length documentary about the Great Lakes of North America. It’s part history, part folklore and part geology lesson, all framed by the ice that created the lakes – and impact its disappearance is having on them.
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