Rain, rain, go away…or not

  Thoughts and consequences of a Catalina rain event It is late January.  I’m sitting in my dry and warm office, seeing the first (and probably only) rays of sun in the last few days hit the soaked ground, thinking “there are actually shadows out there.”  As I’m...

Introducing the Naturalist Life

This is a blog about nature, particularly the nature of Catalina Island (where I currently live), but it also includes essays and photographs from other places I have worked in, visited or where I have encountered stories and events of the natural kind.  These include...