when I visit my family back east, I hear them right next to me but almost never see them!

U IN FACT ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

gray tree frog! they’re the coolest!

I think the sense of place in your work is incredibly vivid!

Close up photo of a black, white and orange bird in the leaves, head up, beak open, eyes wide as he calls loudly.

Me too, towhee friend. Hang in there

#birds 🌿

💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 FRIEND!

gallery wall of mixed-media cyanotype prints of animals, in vintage brass and silver frames from different eras. animals, from left to right: bluegill sunfish, great blue heron, festive tritona nudibranch laying eggs, snow geese and moon, northern harriers, swans and Mt. Baker, flock of dunlin sandpipers

gallery wall of mixed-media cyanotype prints of animals, in vintage brass and silver frames from different eras. animals, from left to right: harbor seal, juvenile salmon, gull splashing down, horned grebes, bluegill sunfish from below, great blue heron, festive tritona nudibranch with eggs, snow geese and moon, northern harrier diptych, swans and Mt. Baker, flock of dunlin sandpipers

Three mixed-media cyanotype prints of animals, in vintage brass frames. From top to bottom: a hummingbird in flight with swirling brushstrokes, a hummingbird alighting on a canna lily, a crow in a magnolia tree

My Creature Portraiture mixed-media photographic series is on display this month at Walnut Street Coffee in Edmonds, WA. I think it looks pretty cool, especially in person. (My secret favorite piece is the festive tritona nudibranch in the silver frame with the ribbon motif.)

in the foreground, a purple pointed flower amid lush green; in the background, downtown Seattle skyline.

went for a walk before work and was delighted to see, among the beautiful native plantings on the overlook walk, shooting star flower

marsh wren peeks out of reeds beside its nest

marsh wren flies off a cattail, fluff in its beak

marsh wren nest construction! 🪶

hummingbird hovering in front of a cattail collecting fluff

hummingbird collecting cattail fluff for the nest

mink swimming through the marsh

mink! at swim

a mink sitting on a marsh log, yawning with its little pink tongue out, reflected in the water below

hello please enjoy this yawning mink

another “throwing spaghetti at the wall” discovery: putting a well-sealed n95 over a lidocaine patch on my nose seems to provide something like a mild spg nerve block sometimes? my guess is that the lidocaine atomizes and I breathe it in through my nose. no idea if that’s actually safe, though.

IT VERY REAL

I hope resuming it does beat back the migraines for you! My own update is that it didn’t prevent another flareup for me, but it does seem to still help all my other migraine-symptom treatments work better. Little steps forward!

Just trucking along through the neurology; also, hi! How are you?

posts brought to you by “large portions of my face went numb from working on my tax spreadsheet”

I’m very sorry you’ve had migraines recently! I generally find antihistamines helpful with mine (especially dramamine for some reason), and they oddly seem to make other treatments more effective. The area around my eyes is so much less painful/tender since I started the h1/h2 thing.

A small breakthrough: Because dramamine helps me but taking it long-term is prob a bad idea, I’ve been trying the h1/h2 histamine blocker thing (zyrtec and pepcid), and since I started, the current migraine flareup began to recede? Which is probably some kind of useful information for me.

Dreaming of the day when I can reliably use a computer for long intervals

thank you very much!! that’s what I was going for, in terms of negative space and the movement of the brushwork!

Blue-toned print of a flock of swans flying past the tip of a mountain silhouette, with a misty marsh in the foreground. The image is contained in serpentine brushstrokes.

a recent print: trumpeter swans flying past the North Cascades. cyanotype on gampi paper, originally photographed at Fir Island in the Skagit Valley.

One entrance is near the big apparatus for lowering boats into the water! One does have to be careful there isn’t a boat overhead when crossing that section of dock (which is gated).

a large gull on a rocky beach, its windblown feathers sticking out at odd angles

the same gull, the wind blowing its feathers like fluffy pantaloons

the majesty of windblown gulls 🪶

realized this is the first time I’ve seen a wild octopus in the pnw 🐙

when the ramen fights back

the absolute largest boi

Hi!! I’m glad to see you, too!!! (Also, I have found the accessible dock in Edmonds Marina! I’m not sure how creature-y it is yet—I suspect it’s a “good around the pilings during a lower tide” dock—but I glimpsed feather duster worms aplenty, which I’m always happy to see up close.)

ohhhh the little snoot-tuck!!!

Huge sea lion biting a red octopus

huge sea lion with a mouthful of tentacles

Huge sea lion who just caught an octopus

the biggest sea lion we’ve ever seen surfaced with an octopus in his teeth, looking like he’d picked up an over-ambitious mouthful of noodles