What Do I Know?

We got up early enough to watch the sun rise from the ferry from Bainbridge Island to downtown Seattle. SeaTac has a program where you can r...

Whenever we spot a woodpecker in the backyard, it looks a lot like this one.  The bird books identify this as either a Downey or a hairy woo...

Our host when we first came to Buenos Aires, Carolina, and her friend Belen have a small business for helping people who visit Buenos Air...

There was a book I couldn't get in LA, San Francisco, or Anchorage.  But Elliott Bay Book Company said they had a copy when I called.  ...

I'm about halfway through Robert Sapolsky's A Primate's Memoirs. Nearby where Sapolsky's studying baboons in southwestern Ke...

Some of my mom's neighbors seem to really get into Halloween decorations.  Most of these are from one yard, though many others had decor...

Xiongxiong is our friends' senior catizen. A Chinese immigrant to the US.

"In 1925, Nikolai Baikov calculated that roughly a hundred tigers were being taken out of greater Manchuria annually . . . virtually ...

The other two this year were in January and April.   Next year (2013) there will only be two (September and December).  Last year there wa...

This last week in Juneau my hosts have been out of town and I'm house and cat sitting. I like cats including this one. My son's a...

This past Wednesday, I got to visit a Brigittine Monastery, the Priory of Our Lady of Consolation in Amity, Oregon. I really didn'...