(timelapse photos of Photinus pyralis in flight. fly left, fly right from Wikimedia) 14 July 2026 Last night after sunset I sat on a park bench and watched fireflies (a.k.a. lightning bugs) in my city neighborhood. I could tell by their flash patterns that they were Photinus pyralis, the common eastern firefly, because the males glowed while ascending in a J shape. Females flashed from the tips of grasses to attract a mate. You can see both behaviors in this video by Radim Schreiber at…
The south is parched -particularly on chalk- but the wildflowers persist.
Cool and clearing after yesterday’s storms. A red-bellied woodpecker calls from a dead limb at the top of the tallest black locust, making it sway. Below him on another dead branch, a fledgling is being fed by its mother.
Forest fire photo from Wikimedia 16 July 2026 The wildfire smoke in Pittsburgh today is from wildfires in western Ontario and the Boundary Waters of Minnesota(*). As of Thursday 16 July at 6:03am, there are 857 fires burning in Canada. Active wildland fires in Canada, 16 July 2026, 10:03am UTC (map from Canadian Wildland Fire Information System) NASA’s GeoFire product shows fire hotspots and visible smoke on Monday 13 July. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cooperative Institute for…
We spent today climbing the East and West Bluff at Devil’s Lake State Park.Merrimac Free FerryEast Bluff
Six-Spot Burnet on Field Scabious.
Hiked part 8/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.92 kilometres from Deventer to Klarenbeek. Along the IJsselkade in Deventer you will see the fast-flowing river IJssel, after which the stage runs over the dike and along floodplains to the south. You pass swamps and wheels that have arisen from dike breaches. Via Gietelo you arrive in Klarenbeek at the strange and abandoned train station. Hike report Deventer Crossing the IJssel Your browser does not support the video tag. Floodplains and the windmill…
2026-07-13Hello! I'm glad I'm not talking about roadkill today.I've looked back at all the photos I've published on this website. A surprising amount of them — including yesterday's image — are iterations and improvements on previous photos I've taken. Those previous photos would have been shared through text message before 1Day1Photo took its current form, or kept on my computer for personal archival.This is one of those improved photos. Many months ago, I took a photo of deer in the snow on…
2026-07-12Hello!On a regular park walk in the afternoon, I paid attention to the light and saw this squirrel climbing around above me.Every time I go on a photowalk, it ends up producing images that I would never have expected. I got fewer keepers than I hoped for, but maybe that's just my standards increasing over time.I wanted to go to an unfamiliar area and get some inspiration. Searching for ideas, I find that I get my best inspiration from chance encounters. To get better photographs, I…
Mt Naeba (苗場山, naeba-san) is one of the Hundred Famous Mountains of Japan, located on the border of Nagano and Niigata prefectures. It's particularly famous for its beautiful marshland near the summit. This post is a bit of a throwback, as I hiked Mt Naeba with some friends back in October of 2023 before I was regularly writing up all of my hikes on this blog. Of course since it's a Hundred, and I got such nice photos of it too, it had been on my to-do list for a while to put it up on this blog…
Overcast and cool. Here and there, black walnut leaves are beginning to yellow. A deer foraging at the woods’ edge breaks into a trot to try to escape her flies.
“I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be.” - Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister’s House”Hello friends! It’s hot. Tomorrow we get cooler north winds (cool for July), but they are going to come filled wtih wildfire smoke. So, it’s going to be a week for limiting outdoor activities for sure. I’ve got some stressful (for me) things to do the next few days, so wish me luck! Sending love to everyone dealing with…
The Small Mottled Willow, Spodoptera exigua, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. Its larvae are highly polyphagous, feeding on a wide variety of herbaceous plants, including both wild and cultivated species. The larvae can cause significant crop damage under favourable conditions, particularly in intensive agricultural systems, and the species is therefore regarded as an important pest in many parts of the world. Small Mottled Willow on a log. Unusually its forewings are not curled…
The Full Moon is Thursday July 30. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Saturn is rising just around 11 pm local time. Mars is below the red star Aldebaran. In the evening, Venus is visible well after the sky is fully dark and draws away from the bright star Regulus. The Southern Delta-Aquarids meteor shower peaks on Sunday July the 30th but moonlight washes it out. The Full Moon is Thursday July 30. The Moon is at apogee when it is furthest from Earth, on the 26th.North-Eastern…
Water willow at Duck Hollow with (possibly) Tripudia flavofasciata moth feeding, 27 July 2025 (photo by Kate St. John) 21 July 2026 Join me this coming Sunday for a bird and nature walk at Duck Hollow and the Lower Nine Mile Run Trail — 26 July 2026, 8:30am to 10:30am. Monongahela River at Duck Hollow Trail, 8 August 2020 (photo by Kate St. John) A year ago at Duck Hollow, Charity Kheshgi and I found water willow blooming on the mudbar with an unusual moth feeding on it (photo at top). Our…
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Duncan Rawlinson photographed this lake freighter navigating the St. Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, New York. The massive self-unloader CSL Laurentien dominates the frame, its rust-red hull and white superstructure rising above the water as a small inflatable boat crosses in the foreground. Spray kicks from the bow where the vessel meets the current. Warm evening light falls across the scene, softening the industrial lines of the ship and the wooded shoreline behind. The size differential…
Where: Iona Beach, Terra Nova, Richmond Nature House (Richmond), Tlahutum Regional Park (Coquitlam)Weather: Mostly sunny, 21°C It was Richmond up in the hizzy today, which meant planes, planes and also some birds. Iona Beach Freight ship plying the waters off Iona Beach. After some early morning showers, the sky mostly cleared up and it was pleasantly warm–and super muggy–for the remainder of the day. We started at Iona Beach and worked back toward a group of people shooting something…
★★★★☆ Incredible views of the Pacific Ocean, Catalina Island, and the coastal hills and canyons from the top of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Calm and quiet, usually breezy, with a few benches out near the edge. High enough you can usually get above the clouds. Away from the edge there’s a large, flat lawn lined with trees, but no playground (much to my son’s disappointment when he was younger). I used to go up here more often because it’s easy to get to (just take Crenshaw uphill until it ends).…
Chinatown storefronts and red lanterns at sunrise, with the Bay Bridge in the distance
📷 A pair of cockatoos, feeding each other while scavenging. #BirdsOfAustralia #WildlifePhotography #FeatheredFriends
Called the "common tiger lily" or "orange day lily", this cluster of rain-dropped Hemerocallis Fulva is a sight to see.
Read the full post at - Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the Reading Unlock Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and the Reading Unlock -> https://www.readtrung.com/p/warren-buffett-and-the-reading-unlock I love reading all of Trung Phan’s work. He’s got a humorous and keen eye on the business news cycle. But this section on the compounding benefits fo reading something I want to just keep coming back to… The #1 Buffett lesson I’ll share with my kid is find an insurance company and invest the…
The ramrod straight Ala Kahakai Trail. A few weeks ago now, I hiked the Ala Kahakai Trail from Keawaiki to Kiholo returning along the coast. Back in the days of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the Ala Kahakai Trail ran from the northern tip of the island down the west coast and around to the southeastern tip, a distance of about 175 miles (282 kilometers). These days, the trail is broken into shorter lengths with private property in between, though more segments of trail are slowly being added. This…
Welcome to the new issue of 6FPS.Welcome to July, where every year we celebrate our independence on the 4th, and I celebrate another year of being vertical (#68) which I consider a win. And out in the garden, the berries are ripening. For my birthday Laurie bought me a really nice Lego kit that I am looking forward to putting together. I’m a couple of kits behind because I’ve been doing other things instead, but this will be a nice one to display. I’m a relative newcomer to Soccer/Football, and…
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 255 miles from Coburg, Oregon to our home base near Shelton, Washington.
Flock of white doves (photo from Shutterstock, 2012) 20 July 2026 Rock doves (Columba livia) were domesticated 5,000 to 10,000 years ago and are still kept today worldwide for a variety of reasons including food or fancy show breeds, and especially for their homing instinct. Homing pigeons (yes Columba livia) are specially bred for navigation and speed and can fly home from a place they’ve never seen up to 600 miles away. This makes them valuable for carrying messages, taking part in races and…
Cool and clear, with sound out of the east: the beeping of quarry trucks and a loud scraping of metal on rock as the sun makes its way through the canopy, prompting a burst of song from a common yellowthroat.
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this view of the Thousand Islands Bridge spanning the St. Lawrence River between Ontario and New York. The long exposure technique smooths the water into a glassy plane that mirrors the bridge’s illuminated cables and towers. Soft overcast light blankets the scene as dusk settles over the wooded islands. The green suspension towers anchor the composition while their reflections trace vertical lines across the calm surface. Rocky shoreline in the foreground provides…
Deuel County, South Dakota, c. 1995 More on Mulder’s farm…
