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Reflections

This is one of my early photographs, featuring two pond slider turtles (Trachemys scripta) resting on a log in the middle of a lake. What truly captured my attention, however, was the stunning reflection of the surrounding forest stretching across the water. Since capturing this image, I've come to see reflections as an added layer of beauty in every photograph.

Discover nature's fleeting moments through my lens—visit my photo gallery to see more.

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First and most important (and a week late), #HappyNewYear #AndyTheTortoise who came out of brumation a week ago today. He’d started it at the end of October. Was too busy to make announcement.

In the last 3 years, I always prolong his brumation artificially (with nightly coolings) till May 1, for optimal heat. This year, however, I extended by an additional week due to poor weather and my lack of readiness… So he was in brumation 6 months and 1 week! Likely his longest, because even in Northern California he normally woke up mid-April!

But he is up now, and doing very well.
Happy 104th year, Andy!!! You rock! I'm so happy to have you!!

The cutting board contains his typical meal at the beginning of the season: From bottom to top: Lettuce (here, red leaf), chopped up roma tomatoes on a leaf of lettuce, and above on chopped dendelion on the left and chopped broccoli florets on the right. I also plant an assortment of plants which I will show in a different toot.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2023 illustration of Stenonychosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hard

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my 2023 Western Interior Seaway illustration, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). It features an Edmontosaurus carcass attracting attention from birds, pterosaurs, bony fish, sharks, marine reptiles, and ammonites.