
A grasshopper on a blade of grass on an early fall day.

A grasshopper on a blade of grass on an early fall day.

A harbor seal pup on Sand Beach in Acadia during a rare moment in July when I was the only person on the beach.

Loons at Belgrade Marsh this summer.

An encounter at Nova Scotia’s Kejimkujik National Park.

Looking forward to spring and kayaking again!


A great blue heron in flight over the Bass Harbor Marsh in Acadia National Park.

Seals on a ledge at the Indian Point Blagden Preserve, a Nature Conservancy preserve on the northwest side of Mount Desert Island. The preserve is on the part of the island that escaped the fire of 1947, with a forest of mostly mature red spruce, white cedar, and balsam fir.

A great blue heron in the wetland behind Sand Beach in Acadia National Park.

A common grackle perching in Belgrade Marsh.

…Where the bison roam, not the buffalo. Check out the difference between them. These bison — a mom and her calf — were in the Kaibab National Forest. We stopped when we saw a whole herd on our way back from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.