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The Daily Bucket: A Forest is Much More Than an Assemblage of Trees.
Trees seem to be gregarious as most tend to live and thrive in communities that we call forests. Some forests are mostly of a single species while others are mixed with a variety of species. In either...
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The Daily Bucket: Spring Comes to my Walking Woods
Whatcom County, Pacific NorthwestSpring has sprung in my favorite walking woods. On these “hunker-down days” I have to move or go buggy so I head out to the woods for an hour of serenity to “commune “...
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The Daily Bucket: Earth Day Beach Clean Up
Earth Day at 50.Pacific NorthwestEdge of the Salish Sea* see the video with the artist who designed the NASA Earth Day logo and where her ideas came from.Lest Earth day 2020 get overlooked by the...
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The Daily Bucket: My yard as an Avian Maternity Ward
May, 2020Bellingham, WAPNWSpring is the time of nature’s regeneration and my yard is no exception. Six bird species have been active at some phase of the birthing process these past few weeks. The...
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The Daily Bucket: Follow-up on "My Yard as an Avian Maternity Ward." or:...
A few weeks ago I optimistically wrote about the several (6) bird species that were nesting in my yard. I had high hopes of an uplifting follow up to show how they all grew to take their place in...
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The Daily Bucket: August Sub-alpine Wild Flowers in the Mt. Baker -...
August 8, 2020North Cascades,Washington StateAs I do each August with my kids and now grand kids, I again ventured to the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest to see the peak of the wildflowers. They...
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The Daily Bucket: West Coast Sea Star Wasting Disease: Part I
Pacific NorthwestBellingham Bay, WAIn June of 2013 on the outer coast of the Olympic National Park, a marine ecologist with the National Park, Steve Fradkin, made a startling observation as he found...
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The Daily Bucket: Alpine Colors in the October Snow
My two sons and I typically take an end of season hike around the Mt. Baker Wilderness area in the North Cascades Mountains and I often report on the hikes. We try to go sometime around the end of...
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The Daily Bucket: Are Sea Stars Coming Back? Causes, Consequences, &...
Pacific NorthwestEdge of the Salish SeaIn Part 1, I described the 2013 outbreak of the sea star wasting disease or syndrome (SSWD) and showed three of the sea star species that have been most heavily...
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The Daily Bucket: Two Cascade Rivers in the Fall
Pacific NorthwestCascade MountainsMt. Baker — Snoqualmie National ForestDuring the last week of October and first week of November I took a couple of trips into the north Cascades Mountains as I am...
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The Daily Bucket: Fungi and Mycelium: Fun, Fine Dining and Life Itself
Pacific NorthwestWhatcom County, WASome Fungi are not only tasty (mushrooms) they are fun to look for and to Identify. They are also essential contributors to much of life on earth. Mycelial fungi...
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The Daily Bucket: What in the Hell is "Hair Ice"?
Pacific NorthwestWashington State.Whatcom County woodlandsAlthough not really rare, “hair ice” or “wool ice”, is not often seen. It occurs under fairly specific circumstances such as temperature,...
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The Daily Bucket – Nooksack River Rapids at Horseshoe Bend in Early Spring
6 April, 2021Mt. Baker National ForestWhatcom Co. WAIt was a nice day with temps predicted to be up to 50F. And it was spring break for my nature trekking companion and shutterbug granddaughter Ava....
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The Daily Bucket: Sea Food Dining on Bellingham Bay - with the Gulls
Bellingham Bay, WAEastern Edge of the Salish SeaLiving on the edge of a salt water bay, we have plenty of gulls as well as other water loving critters. For the most part, I love the gulls which are...
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Yard "Objets d'Art". (Photo Diary)
Traveling about in the Pacific Northwest, I have been fascinated by the objects that people place in front of, or alongside their homes and establishments. These objects offer a peek into the lives and...
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The Daily Bucket: KELP! SAVE US! The Planet Needs to Rescue Kelp to Combat...
Help Indeed! kelp needs to be saved from potentially disastrous losses to the oceans and therefore to the whole planet. And this is a major problem right in my backyard/bay and the Salish Sea as well...
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The Daily Bucket: KELP! SAVE US! Part 2.
In Part 1, I described what kelp was, where it grew and the many purposes it serves for the marine and terrestrial environments. Here I will illustrate the extent of the losses of kelp forests and...
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The Daily Bucket: Late Summer in the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area - Who Shrunk...
September 3, 2021Mt. Baker Wilderness AreaWhatcom Co. WAWe were able once again to do our annual family outing to the Mt. Baker Wilderness Area in late Summer. Given COVID and all, we were able wrangle...
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The Daily Bucket: Seeing Mosses
Bellingham, WAPacific NorthwestOctober/November, 2021In our part of the world with our frequent rain and cloudy days, moss is everywhere. Old timers here are often referred to as “Moss Backs.” Moss...
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The Daily Bucket: There's a lot to Like in lichens.
Pacific NorthwestWhatcom County, WAThere are many facets of nature that are right in front of us but are too often overlooked as I tried to demonstrate with my previous Bucket on mosses. It is...
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