Looks like my arch enemy the fat robin is back for the season. All he does is peck at truck back...
Outdoors
Winter Finally Makes A Snowing
After a crazy warm winter, Mother Nature decided to make a showing. Total of 25-inches, but...
Bird Feeder Online
NH Fish and Game gave thumbs up to put winter feeders up. No way bears are hibernating with this...
Moon from deck
Looked like you could reach out and touch the moon early last night. Taken from my deck through...
Big Red – Round One
Had our first real snow last night. Maybe 6 inches of heavy/wet slop. Don't mind doing driveway,...
Checking each other out
One of our regular visitors facing off with Charlie. This is looking out from the bedroom window...
Getting Ready for Winter
Happy to see these guys around prepping for winter. We've had at least 3 barred owls hanging...
First Snow of the Season
Typically we have snow by Thanksgiving, so this is just a few weeks earlier than normal. Hope it...
Full Moon
Happened to look out window last night and saw nice bright full moon. It is a bit challenging to...
Fall 2023
I drive down Bog Road everyday taking Charlie to dog park. Have always enjoyed this...
Luna Moth
Was in front yard today trying to figure out kayak storage and saw what looked like a falling leaf...
Rain, Rain, and more Rain
Weeks of rain and more predicted for all the following week. Not certain how tomato plants like...
Tomatoes going to have rough year
Between too much rain, the deer and chipmunks, we now have these slug's working their way up...
Turtle Season
Saw these guys yesterday in East Cove. No fish bitting here but nice to see Eastern Painted...
Black Flies Suck
First wave of black flies arrived. Right on schedule. Sitting out on deck last evening and had to...
Close Encounters of the Bear Kind
This is what a momma bear looks like when they charge you. She covered the 50 feet between us in...
Fatty
Robin outside our bedroom window this morning. Probably the fattest one we've seen here.
Momma Fox – enjoying the sun
Rained and sleeted all night but sun just popped up and temps now in the 40's and perfect....
Cat Shit Lady is Back
When I catch this lady (almost got her last time) I am going to force feed here every cat turd she...
Spring Arrives – maybe
Every spring, we get some dumb robin trying to get the attention of the truck for a potential...
Big Red, NH and Snow
I just hate it when it starts snowing again right when you finish! Close to 2 feet of really...
Barred Owl
This guy was in trees behind our deck hunting squirrels. We have heard this owl for past couple of...
Momma Fox This Morning
She has a little den in the rocks under our garage. Believe it is one of the same foxes that come...
Pileated Woodpecker
Kept seeing bark dropping to deck and thinking it was the wind blowing things...and finally...
Hairy Woodpecker
Have not seen many of these over the winter. Normally they are a regular visitor but has been very...
Starlink Satellites Over House
Got an OK image of the satellites. Was much better to see live - there were actually about 40 of...
Cold…Cold…Cold – New Mt Washington Record
In Grantham, we were a balmy -20F with 30MPH winds, so wind chill was only -45F or so. They had...
Hitting the feedbag before the storm
We are finally going to get some snow - has been a very mild and mostly snowless winter. But......
Dianna, New Hampshire and the Moose
Diana K flew across the United States for a long awaited visit. This was her first time to the...
Kancamagus Highway
Sony A6000, Rokinon 12mm/f2, ISO100, 1/640s, A=f8 Not certain where this picture was taken, one of...
Milky Way
From North Cove looking South - Eastman Pond, Grantham - NH
Milky Way – 1st attempt
Sony A6000, Rikonon 12mm/f2, 20sec, ISO=1600 This is my first attempt to photograph the Milky Way...
Backyard
Fuji X10, f2.5, ISO1600, 1/20s - incamera conversion Not many are fortunate enough to have a...
Loons
We are luck enough to have nesting pairs of Loons on our pond. Don't recall who took this (maybe...
Unknown Bird
Only saw this once - not really certain what species, but there was a pine suskin hanging around...
Jumping Rock
This was taken with Olympus TG-6 Jumping rock is a popular location in the summer. I have always...
Duck Alert
Sony A6000 55-210mm Kit lens, f6.3, 315mm, ISO3200, 1/320/s My buddy telling me he can see a fish....
Mr. Bluejay
Sony A6000, 55-210 kit lense A regular customer in our backyard feeder. He usually brings...
Red Squirrel
Regular visitors year round. We had a pregnant female that looked like a pineapple before she had...
Dec 17, 2020
Major snow storm - 38". That is a lot for even here. Big Red is an absolute beast and had no...
My Favorite Beach
Hampton Beach - I just love this place.
Point Defiance Beach
Fuji X10 Trying rule of 3'rds and having something in foreground
Mountain Climbing Sucks
Summit of Mt Washington (NH) via cog railway. Do not understand why people think climbing up here...
Christmas Island Uber
This is a big Island and main transportation are these outrigger style boats.
CAE Team on Rainier
Left to Right: Bruce, Dave, Tyler, Hillary, Renee, Sam and his wife, and Jobe. We all went for...
Almost Died Here
This is the place I decided to no longer be a member of the "Tacoma Mountaineers" - doing a winter...
Backyard in Bonney Lake, WA
This was the backyard Lisa and I built at our Bonney Lake house while I was working for Boeing....
Blind Bruce
Not certain how or why he did it, but Bruce was amazing on Rainier. We made a few training runs...
Mt Saint Helens – solo
This was a fun hike. Was prepping for Mt Washington (NH) and thought I could squeeze this in...
Mt Rainier
Tried my best but only made it to the red dots!
Shyamala on Rainier
Shyamal was all smiles for this picture - but was soon to learn that getting up to Muir was only...
Bruce at Muir with CEM Flag
Good picture of Bruce Stobie while we were at Camp Muir.
House Frog
Fuji X10 - ISO 200, f2.2, 1/200s Lisa holding this guy we found on our front porch of Bonney Lake...
Point Defiance Ferry
Fuji X10 This is a older picture taken from the Point Defiance Ferry loading area. I was just...