Why, yes, that is a photo of a praying mantis killing and eating a humming bird. Thank you, Internet! Carnivores gonna carnivore, right? Apparently, they rather like bird brains, burrowing through the soft-tissue eye sockets…

I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably. I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength…

I know better than to be fooled by the FEELING of spring in the air. I live in Maryland--have most of my life--and I know even a mild winter such as how this one…

I live near.a lake. Not a real lake, that is, because I live in Maryland, and while we get to boast being home in large part to the Chesapeake Bay along with being…

An evening walk around #LakeElkhorn, spinning my fire staff as I did (working on my chi roll), listening to classical guitar ... and this--THIS!--was my backdrop.  

'Tis the season of late summer. Of early fall harvests. The time when many a plant give their last hurrah, their fruit, their seeds. I can talk a good game about gardening, though truth…

At a neighborhood barbecue recently, I wanted to prepare the Solo Stove for the night-time "mini bonfire" ahead. I started gathering some kindling and smaller wood from a nearby woodpile when my eyes…

Just caught a mosquito, mid-air. This was not a capture-and-release exercise. Photo source.  

Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not? this First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world…

It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool…

Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon. bear witness to the journey Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it…