One Day of Birds
What do you get when you cross a passion for photography with a life-long love of birds? 365 Days of Birds – my husband Rich’s latest project. It’s a year long challenge he created for himself,...
View ArticleIn Search of Color
It’s been so drab for so long. It didn’t help to wake up to dense fog, which obliterated all surroundings, brown or otherwise. My morning run took me up to Hawk Ridge, where nature defied all...
View ArticleA Visiting Loon
It's one of my favorite things at the cabin – seeing loons and hearing their plaintive cry. Sometimes I can get fairly close to them when out in the kayak. But ultimately they always dive and swim...
View ArticleFarewell Towering Pine
It's been almost four weeks since the storm raged through Duluth. Waking in the early morning hours to blinding lightning, constant thunder and howling winds did little to prepare us for the...
View ArticleLooning
I'll be the first to admit, birding is not my thing. I have tremendous admiration and respect for Rich's dedication and boundless patience in pursuing his birds, and the amazing photographs that he...
View ArticleLife in the Slow Lane
Covid has shut down large chunks of my social life. Confined me to writing at a table in our bunk room instead of the cozy environs of Amity Coffee. Diverted me to Zooming with my delivery-mates...
View ArticleRescuing Fuzzball
He’s known as The Owl Guy. The name originated when my husband, Rich, was in the hospital for open heart surgery. He was relegated to a hospital bed for nearly two weeks, and in that time numerous...
View ArticleFostering Fuzzball
It’s not easy being a foster parent. Especially to an owlet. Fuzzball seems to have adapted to his new nest quite well. Rich calls it Lawn Chair Nest 2.0, and amazingly it has remained stable on its...
View ArticleFuzz and Feathers
That’s all that is left. Poor Fuzzball, he so wanted to be free. But it cost him his life. Last evening there was a knock on the door. “Your owlet is on the ground, right near the trail.” Apparently...
View ArticleFuzzball Lives!
After mourning the demise of the baby owl, Rich was greatly surprised to spy Fuzzball high up in a tree! Having just left the nest with Mama Owl and the sibling, he knew it had to be Fuzzball. But how...
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