Symbiosphere

Matte black looks better on helmet urchins than it does on sports cars.  Thanks to Echinoblog for a great post on these animals. 

Last year saw the completion of a few projects around the house, but this year I am even more ambitious.  I want to (in no particular order)...

The sauna benches were finished last week.  The sauna's solid fuel engine with attached water tank.  And the fuel - poplar tree trunks. ...

Perhaps no diving bird is more amazing than an Osprey at the moment its talons pierce the water.  Watch Nature: Moment of Impact: Jungle to...

A woodpecker near our house on 30 September.  I'll have to look up the species sometime. 

Wonder Lake is 4 miles long and 280 feet deep.  Four fish species, including trout, live in the cold waters.  Denali is shrouded in thick cl...

Three of the six bears we saw in Denali.  Though most of their diet is plants, these healthy and numerous apex predators are a sign of a pro...