Thoughts on Taxidermy, Fashion & Bighorn Sheep
Seen on the G train: A bookish young hipster bringing home the taxidermied head of a bighorn ram. Continue reading
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Category 'Nature'
Autumn, Trees
Of all the insights contained in the genomes of these trees, the feel of a fall day is not among them. Continue reading
September 11, Fall Migration and Occupy Wall Street
On my way to Ground Zero on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I stopped for a slice a pizza and to clear my head. The previous week had been a somber one; every anniversary recalls the past, but some make you reflect on what’s happened since, and a cloud hung over the intervening years. The nation felt like a different, far darker place than before that fateful morning. Continue reading
A Parrot Nests in Brooklyn
Escaped from an ornithologists’ crate that fell to the tarmac at JFK, refugees from pet owners, released by a guerilla naturalist in Greenwood Cemetery: Continue reading
Jamaica Bay Snapshots
Images from the great, terrible, destroyed, verdant urban wilderness of Jamaica Bay. Continue reading
Patterns in a Field
Late in June, within a space of several acres. Ubiquitous, ephemeral, as magnificent as any Pollock. Continue reading
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