Island in the Net

For almost three days the nor’easter had rained on New Jersey.

I wanted Crown + Flint to work.

I wanted to call this post “Modern Cars Parked” as a nod to Jim Grey’s Old Cars Parked series, his patient, decades-spanning documentation of the cars people actually drove, sitting in driveways and parking lots rather than on showroom floors.

Bhavna and I bought at low of Scotch just before the pandemic.

My camera has a cat picture mode.

Lately I’ve been feeling birding ennui — birdwatching burnout.

Looked up from my home office desk and saw this Eastern Wood-Pewee perched on a branch of the sassafras tree.

Every summer, I set several of my larger tropical houseplants outdoors to soak up the sun.

Twenty-five years ago, I put my first real website online.

My little garden didn’t attract as many pollinators as I had hoped, but I photographed at least two coarse-backed red paper wasps.

Enjoyed some time in my little garden in the backyard.

I mailed a roll of Atlanta Film Co.

Arrived 6:42 AM, walked the Pole Farm trail network for 1 hr 23 min (1.42 km) starting near Cold Soil Road, up through the meadow to the observation tower, and out toward the Keefe Road trail edge.

There’s a small deception in calling American Goldfinches “summer visitors,” at least here in Montgomery Township.

For years I have wanted a native wildflower garden.

It’s a big birthday year for the USA. 250 years.

The American white waterlily (Nymphaea odorata) is native to North America.

David Mathre’s place in the Grandview section of Skillman doesn’t look like much from the road.

Late summer (2022) sunset over Lower Bay Channel, with the silhouette of Sandusky Coal Dock in the distance.

I took this photograph of a European starling in Montgomery Township, perched on the very tip of a young pine.