Jay Perry

I was sitting out on our back porch watching the sunset tonight, when I felt something climbing up my leg.

On April 12, 2026, I gave a short talk to the All Souls Waccamaw Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

The prelude to spring here has see-sawed between snowstorms and warm days.

Some photos I've been taking on walks around my neighborhood.

We adopted a new dog last week, a 3 1/2-year old greyhound we named Penny Jane.

We've got a bit of snow today - only a dusting so far, but it's the first of the year, which always feels exciting.

I visited Montreal a few weeks ago for a conference.

In my adult life I’ve become more and more inclined to make plans — increasingly detailed plans — but I also get more and more invested in them.

My wife’s birthday is September 1st, and I made a card for her: a series of quick drawings of a flower from our Rose of Sharon tree.

I took some time off this morning to walk around East Baltimore awhile.

A few photos I’ve taken with a few new lenses I’ve bought: photos of little details I’ve run across in our yard and the local forests.

These last couple chapters mull over what the night has meant to us humans over our history, and also what it means to me, personally.

I love the way sunlight filters in through the windows in the morning this time of year.

Our cherry tree is usually the first thing in our yard to bloom.

The older I get, the more attached I feel to my daily routine.

The 5th chapter of my new essay is up!

We got a pretty decent snowstorm this week - roughly 8 inches on the ground in my neighborhood.

I ran across a fascinating piece in The Economist this morning that does a nice job of summing up all the complexity of the problem of cattle farming and its environmental costs versus its economic and cultural importance.

I took a short walk the other morning.

I got a new camera and it got me thinking about what photography means to me, and how our expectations have changed, over the years, about what a camera is.

Here's some in-progress snapshots of the drawings I did for the 'Landing on the ceiling' illustration.

I’m afraid I was running late getting this chapter together.

I took a short walk the other evening to stretch my legs and get some fresh air.

There’s a clip floating around YouTube that I’ve watched many times: Ayrton Senna drives a Honda NSX around Suzuka, a racetrack in Japan.

I filled up the last page of my notebook last night, and it was time to start on the new one.

Chapter 3 of my new essay is up!

An animated short from Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney

The other night I listened to M83’s classic double album, ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’, in my headphones.

I’ve posted Chapter 2 of my new essay, in which I buy a bat house and find myself deeply confused.

Experience begets capability, but that isn’t always apparent or obvious.

I’ve been working on a new illustrated essay called Nightfall, which I’ve decided to post serially on my website, one chapter each month.

Here's some photos I shot from our trip to Ocean City, Maryland this year.

I ran across a book at the library this week called ‘The Comfort of Crows’, by Margaret Renkl.

I’m so sad to hear that Toumani Diabaté has passed away.

Childish Gambino’s new album, 'Bando Stone and The New Word' is great and complicated and intense, like all his work.

Overheard the other day…

I went on my first overnight-camping bike ride a few weeks ago.

I’ve started going on (short, slow) runs again, about three months after fracturing my ankle.

There’s been some really great clouds over the past week or so — the kind that usually make me stop and take a picture.

On a road trip the other weekend, I played a new favorite album: 'Being Waves' by a British band called Kinkajous.

The other night, an owl flew right by us!

I finished a new illustration for my upcoming essay, 'Nightfall'.

This week, a month after I broke my ankle, I had a followup appointment with the orthopedist.

I’m trying out a slightly different approach to blogging: posting shorter notes more frequently.

I read a piece Ed Yong wrote about his birdwatching hobby and was intrigued.

Reading ‘The Sentence’ this weekend, I remembered how much I love Louise Erdrich’s writing.

I really love what John Evelyn has done with his new game, ‘The Collage Atlas’, recently released on Steam.