While I’ll still post here, especially on writing, photography, and family, I’ve created a new blog: One-Car Town: Logging the one-car lifestyle in new suburbia. Check it out at: http://onecar.terrain.org One-Car Town tracks my experience living without a car in suburban Tucson, Arizona. As man of you know, my wife, two daughters, and I live [...]

On January’s full moon — the closest moon to Earth in two years — we discovered a ringtail in the tree near the Civano neighborhood center. Fortunately, I had my camera nearby, and was able to spend some time with our neighbor. Check out the gallery for all 19 of the photos; here are a [...]

I just got back from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment biennial conference in Victoria, British Columbia. It was a great conference in a stunning location! Below is a sampling of the 137 photos available in my site’s photo gallery. You may also wish to view the ASLE blog entries I posted [...]

About ten days ago, when the girls and I were on our Colorado trip, Billie mentioned some bee activity in the backyard, near the door to the garage. When I came home I noticed that bees were flying in and out of a small gap where the back porch roof meets the flat garage wall. [...]

Charles Darwin is known more for his detailing of finches on the Galapagos than of his work with hawks (if any), but hawks and Darwin are on my mind this week and next. First, we had a Cooper’s hawk visit our yard the other day: He started at the bird feeder, which I had just [...]

Egads, it’s been a month since I’ve posted on my blog! Well, so it goes with the end of the semester and the next issue of Terrain.org out in only a month (and I’m way behind at that). I’m hoping to post the photos I took from my landscape photography class, which just ended. I’ve [...]

This semester I’m taking a landscape photography class as an elective. Our first photo assignment was to capture “heaven and hell” in Tucson. Most folks took separate photos of heaven (the good) and hell (the bad), but I took photos at religious sites that I hoped would represent both heaven and hell in each particular [...]

Edit: I’ve written the first of two parts, over at Next American City, on these places: “Denver: America’s Great Urban Canvas, Part I.” Last week I had the good fortune to visit Denver, hosted by our friends the Doolings, and visit many Denver-area New Urban developments. The purpose for my visit, really, was to see [...]

The flamingo migrated into our yard this morning, and will likely move on in the next day or so.

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