Food styling and photograph by MM Ruth
This is the total harvest of "bounty" from my garden this morning: micro-plump garlic and second-growth rhubarb--two of the hardy "crops" shunned by the slugs, rabbit, and deer that graze in my unfenced front yard.
Find your way to the Olympia Farmers Market.
No take-out. Delivery only. A young murrelet is nest bound and relies on its parents to catch and delivery its meals: small fish the chick will swallow whole and headfirst. Pen-and-ink drawing by Paul Jones.
Join me this Thursday night at 7 p.m. in Portland, Oregon, for a presentation I'll be giving with conservation dynamo Paul Engelmeyer, manager of Portland Audubon's Ten-Mile Creek Sanctuary. Our talk will focus on the discovery and recovery of the marbled murrelet, a federally threatened seabird that nests in the mature coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest.
The story of this enigmatic little bird whose nest was first discovered 40 years ago this year will delight you. The work being done to protect this species and its forest and marine habitats will inspire you.
The presentation is free. Copies of Rare Bird will be available for purchase. For more information click here.
The photo gallery below will give you a sense of a 150-acre woodland within the City of Olympia, WA--150 acres slated for 1,000 homes unless our community can rally to save them. For more information, please visit www.lbawoodspark.org and sign the petition to urge the Olympia City Council to step in and help purchase this unique property--the largest undeveloped tract of private land in the city.
Meanwhile, hover 'n' click on the photo below see what spring should always look like in a mature native Douglas-fir forest: exquisite
Last week's sweltering sunny 89-degree days in San Francisco drove me indoors to the De Young Museum and the Palace of the Legion of Honor where I found not only cool shade but fabulous clouds. Here is the round-up of some so-called landscapes that are really cloudscapes from the two museums.
Though I lingered in person in front of these masterpieces, you have to "hover" your cursor over the paintings and click to advance to the next photo in the gallery.
