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I photographed this surreal landscape of golden-spined Teddybear Cholla glowing against the black volcanic soil of El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve in Sonora while camping there with my brother. #photography #4x5photography

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Giant Sequoias, Sequoia National Park, California. Brightly colored Wolf Lichen drapes mixed tree species in the foreground. This lichen species was used by indigenous Californians as a vivid yellow pigment. #photography

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#Watercolor sketch of narrow apartment building in #Palermo, #Sicily. Many of the buildings off the main lanes are heavily adorned in graffiti, and evidence of the scars of World War II is everpresent in these back streets. https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/europa/sicily-journal.html

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I sketched these jars of Bahamian guava jam while working on a story about Abaco. Guava pastes, jams, and jellies are quite common in the #Caribbean, and in the Bahamas, guava jelly or jam is pretty commonly used in different recipes - Johnny Cakes, Guava Duff or just spread on homemade bread.

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Hidden among the barnacles of an Oregon Coast seastack, this tiny creature is a master of disguise---but what is it, and how did it get wedged in there? I just updated some old notes on this fella: https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/flat-porcelain-crab.html #macrophotography #oregon #pnw

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The #Westfjords region is one of Iceland’s most rugged and remote areas, filled with deep fjords and water everywhere. I photographed this scene of Patreksfjörður fjord with my son at midnight while on a trip to see the nearby cliffs of Látrabjarg—one of Europe’s largest seabird cliffs. #photography

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Door detail from Erice, Sicily, Italy. This is from my project on the doors and windows of the world. #travelphotography https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/roam/doors-and-windows.html

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Sheep Lake, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington #photography

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Morning light in Venice

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Do you love yuccas? I just finished my #art project to #sketch every yucca species in the world. One of the things about doing something for a while, you see your subject everywhere, and now I see #yuccas everywhere. #botany Full detail: https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico/yuccas.html

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American Flamingos, Celestún Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, #Mexico

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Sunset Beach, Oregon. Little waves make an impact. Here's to the subtle forces on Earth and within each of us that protect and conserve, and fight for compassion and justice. May we continue to create ripples of change in the year ahead. #HappyNewYear

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Point of the Arches, Olympic Peninsula, Washington at low tide and pre-sunrise. #washingtonstate

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Black Skimmer, San Francisco Bay. If you are like me, and you love evolution, you have to see a Black Skimmer at least once in your life. Skimmers (there are 3 species globally) evolved from terns into a bird that has eeked out an evolutionary niche like none other. #birds

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Peace, light, and reflection from Trillium Lake at Mt. Hood. Wishing you moments of stillness today and in the year ahead.

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I spend a lot of time near the Peter Iredale wreck on Oregon's northern coast, a place I love for its shorebirds and sandy tidal pools. This steel sailing vessel ran aground on Clatsop Spit in 1906 while en route to Portland, and over a century later, its rusting skeleton is slowly disappearing,

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Black Oystercatchers are, to me, like a symbol of the Pacific Northwest coast. They forage for mussels and limpets in the rocky shorelines from Baja to Alaska, but are most often seen here in Oregon and Washington. Their global population is small! There are only about 10,000. #birds

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The Boojum tree, or Fouquieria columnaris, is one of the strangest plants on Earth, and is native only to #Baja California and parts of Sonora. It looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, and are sometimes referred to as inverted turnips. #landscapePhotography

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Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius), Osa Peninsula, #CostaRica. This bird of the mangroves of Central and South America is a nocturnal hunter, using its weird bill to sift and snatch from muddy shallow water bottoms. Boatbills always remind me of a creature from a Studio Ghibli animation.

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Anini Beach, Kauai

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The Owyhee region of Oregon is one of the most remote regions in the 48 states. Big river canyons, ancient volcanic formations and high desert terrain. Named for the Hawaiian trappers who explored the region in the 1800s, the Owyhee region is astounding. It may soon become a national monument.

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Free-floating spherical aggregations of green algae, probably from the Cladophora genus. I found millions of these in shallow low-tide pools on motus in the Tikehau lagoon. In healthy island and marine environments like this, these cute little green balls are beautiful wonders.

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Hamburg Fairgrounds at night. Hamburg, Germany. #nightphotography

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Sunrise at Canyon Creek Meadow, an expansive alpine meadow located in the Jefferson Wilderness Area, near the base of Three Fingered Jack.

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A White Tern egg, sitting on a bare branch on an uninhabited motu in #Tikehau, in the Tuamotu atoll. This egg is uniquely adapted to the bird's wild and crazy nesting strategy. White Terns have evolved to lay their eggs directly on open branches or rocky ledges. #evolution

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Marpissa, a town on the Cycladic island of Paros, features narrow, winding streets, like many other place in the old world. But these streets were designed to be mazelike on purpose - as a defensive measure against pirate raids. https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/europa/paros.html

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The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in Barcelona is more often known simply as the Barcelona Cathedral. I drew this church with a sepia Micron pen and Copic markers. #travelsketch

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I saw this 1948 Ford Anglia in Trinidad, #Cuba - a rare sight in Cuba, where most classic cars are American models from the 1950s. The Anglia was actually a British car produced by Ford UK. In Cuba, cars like the Anglia are kept alive with constant creative modifications to stay operational.

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When I first moved to the Pacific Northwest, I couldn't make sense of the long, dreary slog until summer. But about a year into living in Portland, I decided to change the seasons to three: wet, first summer, second summer. #portland

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#silentsunday

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Abundant insect life, including these hovering flies, abounds in the amphibious world of the San Jose del Cabo estuary. I photographed this fly with a telephoto lens at last light. #travel #nature #photography https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico/san-jose-del-cabo-estuary.html

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If a book could become a guide, which one would you trust to lead you through the wilderness?

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Question for traveling readers: Have you ever read a book on a trip where the two—the book and the journey—became inseparable in your memory?

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A juvenile Green Heron at Koll Wetlands, Beaverton—one of my favorite birds of all time. The Green Heron, which disperses northward in the summer, reminds me of the connection between the biological and geographical worlds of the Americas. This young bird is a living thread of migration. #birds

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#TravelTuesday

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Ice shapes formed by creek water dripping onto rock, captured at sunset in Oregon.

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