The man of the hour

A tequila toast Jeff Hess of Have Coffee Will Write! His site was named Best Local Weblog by CleveScene.com. Here’s what they had to say: CoolCleveland.com may get more press, but Jeff Hess’ Havecoffeewillwrite.com is terabytes above the local competition. His daily posts remind the public of Cleveland controversies long after the local media gets [...]

Friday dog-blogging

Pretending to be a guard dog.

Death porn

Reports are slipping out that some US military personnel have been trading gruesome shots of dead and dismembered Iraqis for access to a porn site. The Independent, a UK publication, reports: The website owner, Chris Wilson, has been quite open about what he is doing. He said his site, which normally features photographs of the [...]

At sunset

Mallards at sunset. I shot this on a wonderful, peaceful evening at Manito Park, as the ducks glided silently across the water beneath the trailing branches of a weeping willow. They’re so used to human intrusion that my presence was not worthy of notice; their world had no need of me. Such dignity and grace [...]

What does that make Idaho?

I haven’t been deputized by the grammar police (I need to petition Meredith to get that assignment), but this new slogan really bugs me. The “Near nature” part I get. A couple of years ago my neighbor found a porcupine in his cherry tree, this spring I saw a baby moose wandering a couple of [...]

Take a walk on the wild side

Tiger at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

There is no cow

The Matrix battle scene — starring a cow.

The Narrows

A day at the zoo

Beluga whales at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, WA. Photo by Meredith

Friday dog-blogging

I’m off to visit Meredith for the weekend, but I wanted to leave you with the deceptively calm image of Edgar posing in the rock garden. Just after I clicked he jumped on me, thinking the camera was a toy I would throw into the air for a game of Catch. He’s a tricky one.

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