Somewhere in my files I have a photo I took of a pugmark from an ocelot, freshly printed in the mud of a Barro Colorado Island trail. It’s an impressive size for a not-so-big wild cat, and it suggests something in the 25 pound range. In my house I have an ordinary tabby, Gizmo, who [...]
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The Mystique of Great Spotted Cats
Posted in Adventure!, Environment, Nature, Panama, Science, history, rainforest, travel, tropics on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Some of My Favorite Places on Earth
Posted in Environment, Harvard Forest, Nature, New England, Oklahoma, Panama, Petersham, field sketching, garden, plein air, rainforest, travel on April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This morning’s spectacular Moon-Venus occultation was a splendid kick-off to this year’s Earth Day. I didn’t see the actual event itself (not knowing about it until afterwards, drat it) but stepped, awestruck, outside in the dark to admire the close pairing of the two.
In honor of Earth Day I’m thinking of planet and places [...]
The Fabulous (Prairie) Chicken Dance
Posted in Adventure!, Drawing, Nature, Oklahoma, Sketching, Wildlife, bird art, birding, birds, field sketching, nature journaling, travel on April 20, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Just back from the Lesser Prairie Chicken Festival in Woodward, Oklahoma (it’s still going on today) and I’m in sleep-dep recovery mode so this’ll be slightly brief and not especially coherent. Let me just say it was a blast and put it on your calendar for next year.
Highlights: 1) sharing a blind with Sharon Stiteler [...]
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Exhibition: Drawing the Motmot; An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature
October 10-January 18 at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Click on the picture for a link to the Museum!
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Nominated for Two Awards!
Just reissued and now available on CDBaby.com! The band from the Motmot’s banjo pickin’ days!
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