Out My Back Door (Click to view animation)

Imagine you are standing on the edge of a great lake.  On the horizon there are tall pines, reduced to dark tufts of fur.  The next moment, the trees are only soft clouds with dark undersides.  You can't be sure.  It's the middle of the afternoon, it's impossible to tell how long you've been there, but everything has the warm color of dusk in the summertime.  You are extremely drunk.  Are those reflections the dark lines of a sailboat's mast, or are they low hanging branches?  There's almost no way to be sure.

Giant Leopard Slug Close-ups

Get really close to what you find interesting.

You'll be surprised.

What do you have to lose?  What do you have to be scared of?

Understanding the world around you is a good way to understand yourself.

Rear Window

We got this hummingbird feeder and filled it up with syrup.  At first it was really red.  Juicy.  Every day, the color faded away a little.  I'm looking at the feeder now, the syrup is clear as glass.  What a mysterious world this is.

Even though it's been almost exactly a year since this photo was taken, it looks almost exactly the same.  Some things don't change, inexplicably.