Category: Natural History

  • Fishing Trip – 2016

    Fishing Trip – 2016

    Nailed it. Hooked approximately 30 fish this weekend in the Eastern Sierra. Put them all back except 1 or 2.  [ngg_images source=”galleries” container_ids=”45″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” override_thumbnail_settings=”0″ thumbnail_width=”120″ thumbnail_height=”90″ thumbnail_crop=”1″ images_per_page=”20″ number_of_columns=”0″ ajax_pagination=”0″ show_all_in_lightbox=”0″ use_imagebrowser_effect=”0″ show_slideshow_link=”1″ slideshow_link_text=”Start Slideshow” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]

  • 2016 Fishing Teaser

  • Rules Rules Rules

    Rules Rules Rules

    A recent walk into the woods of Washington State revealed the tight grip of government on all of us.

  • Honey Bee Swarm in Slow-Mo

  • We Done Got Gone Fishing

    We Done Got Gone Fishing
  • Coastal Stargazing

    Coastal Stargazing

    We drove up the coast and stargazed on the beach. Remarkably the skies were clear and we spotted and counted the moons of Jupiter, hunted the Andromeda Galaxy, and reviled in the massive glory of the Orion Nebula.

  • The Ashley Book of Knots

    The Ashley Book of Knots

    Clifford W. Ashley: The Ashley Book of Knots

  • SwarmTree-SwarmTallTree

    Friday was suppose to be good.. comfortable.. it was sunny, clear, I could see the crisp skyline of Oakland and The City. The Golden Gate Bridge posed perfectly as the framing to the Pacific. I was computing, seriously computing. Sitting on the deck, legs up, shades on, computing furiously getting THIS site back into working […]

  • Springtime Bees

    Springtime means lots of activity at the hive, or some I’m told. As this is our First spring time with our bees, I’m still quite eager to watch what happens with the colony, how things change, and what I might do to make the bees, well, happier. I often consider the answer to the last […]

  • ACBA Observation Hive Cleaning Party

    This 10 minute video features ACBA club members cleaning the club’s observation hive on monday morning. The hive is situated inside with an opening through the wall to the outside. Inside the hive there sit 4 vertical frames sandwiched by plexi-glass. It’s quite an interesting set-up. As the video shows, a more regular cleaning is important to […]