Field Notes

Before dawn on Christmas morning, Steve and I stole out of my parents’ house and drove over to the cliffs at Hach-Otis to catch the sunrise....

Back in my hometown for my high school class reunion, Steve and I spent last Saturday afternoon at Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio. We d...

Despite missing the peak of the spring warbler migration two weeks ago, Steve and I made the trek up to Magee Marsh between Port Clinton and...

It's late April, the snow has finally stopped, and the spring wildflowers are blooming. My small, wet second- or third-growth woodlot h...

In the midst of this small break from the misery that has been this winter here in Ohio, I attempted to capture a photograph that eluded me ...

Today I venture out into a frigid, breathtakingly beautiful, blue and white morning. Last weekend's ice and snow still covers the ground...

I ventured out to the mailbox this morning, the sun well up and the thermometer at freezing. Last week's storm blew most of the remaini...