I did a mad dash to the Eastern Shore to find a place to rent for a while (as I’m hoping to build a new home in the area). I say “Mad” because I am discovering the 9-11hr drive takes a lot out of me and to do it as “extra” on top of a [...]

Zen has taken to the new training grounds with glee. Today she managed some structure training, followed by swimming, and washing up. The requisite nap was squeezed in before heading out to the pitch for a pick-up game of ball. It was all Zen all the time. The other players didn’t have a chance …

She [...]

There are those rare times, when you feel you are the only one on earth. It is quiet. You don’t hear cars or trucks rushing past. No machinery whizzing, whining, clanging and banging. There are no conversations, no interruptions. There is nature. Not good and evil, just nature - doing what nature does. Warming [...]

Two of my friends are on vacation trips. Two very different people. Two very different trips. But both have captured some amazing photos. One has just returned from a motorcycle ride up thru British Columbia. The other is wrapping up a photography vacation thru Utah and Arizona.
I had a relatively relaxing weekend going mostly no [...]

The map depicted here is part of the label found on many of the products from the Blue Crab Bay Co. I found this novelty food and gift outlet shortly after my first arrival to the Eastern Shore. If you like Old Bay seasoning you’ll like most of their food items - like [...]

Just before the holidays, I went to the local post office to buys stamps for Christmas Cards. There was a big sign “2007/2008 Migratory Bird Stamps Available”. I thought “bird stamps … that would be a nice local touch for my cards”. I inquired at the desk and was told they were $18. I [...]

I posted about the migratory birds that call the Chesapeake Bay area either a stopping over point or a destination in their seasonal migration. If you want to know what 500+ Canadian Geese look like and sound like, I did a lousy job at capturing it with my little point-n-shoot digital camera but it’s on [...]

I took a road trip Sunday to find Chincoteage Island - perhaps best known for the “swimming ponies” from Marguerite Henry’s 1947 children’s book “Misty of Chincoteague”. The town is pretty much a one trick pony - pun intended. As with most of this part of Virginia, most things were closed on [...]

I’ve been watching the migratory birds along the Chesapeake Bay off an on over the past couple of months. And in that time I’ve also tried to photograph them on multiple occasions. I seldom was happy with the results. Today was different …

Can you identify the 4 plants ?

… looks like a sign that spring is in the air. This is one of two !

I wonder where he’s going ?!

Zen and I went out for her morning constitutional around 7am this morning. At first neither of us noticed anything unusual on the gray damp morning. Then I noticed one of the Great Egrets was in the field, not in the creek looking for food. It didn’t register. Back inside, while making breakfast, I [...]

I must admit, I always thought things like the UV index were on a scale of 1 to 10. I guess I must be living in some parallel universe because I just found this for my area … 11 ?! Good thing Zen likes to swim. But with 6 days of this forcast, she [...]

A picture is worth a thousands words … in this case, perhaps I only need seven -  “I let Zen have too much fun”.

Hurricane season is here. When I first started the idea of getting the farm and eventually building on it, my plans were temporarily interrupted by Hurricane Isabel. Isabel hit land with sustained winds of 105 mph. At it’s strongest, it was measured at 165 mpg with an instantaneous peak of 233 mph (measured from [...]