Poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman The garden beds I wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfly, A-sitting on a thorn, A black...| Migratory Legends
As I continue to read Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn, I’m fascinated by his insight into insect life. He wrote in a time when insects in the western world were...| Migratory Legends
I’ve been reading Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn, an author who lived in Japan and wrote a number of books in the late 1800’s about Japanese culture and folklore. I’ve...| Migratory Legends
Here is some new art I did of a Douglas Fir cone I found that had become a sort of nurse log for moss and fungi. It never fails to...| Migratory Legends
Here’s a quick illustration of a clione I did recently. A clione is a type of sea slug commonly known as a sea angel and this species, Clione limacina, is...| Migratory Legends
#InverteFest is running now through the 31st and since the weather here in Seattle has either been ice or pouring rain, I have instead sat inside and worked on my nature journal. I’ve painted two pages of invertebrates from my summer outings, both in Washington state. But one was east of the Cascades, in a climate very different from Seattle and as such, I was treated to a lot of different insects, including some really spectacular ambush bugs, which I hope to write a Field Journal article ...| Migratory Legends
My freelance writing on natural history has appeared in National Wildlife Magazine, Crosscut, Popular Science and others. You can find them on the Freelance page.| www.metrofieldguide.com
They have become infamous as some of the toughest organisms on earth. They can survive the vacuum of space, they withstand doses of radiation that would kill humans, they can dry out or be frozen and| Migratory Legends
