Wolverines in Rainier National Park! Pretty cool to see them showing up in new places (or at the very least finding them there), but travel...

On a slightly different topic, a bunch more wolves were killed in WA state recently. If all things Covid-related are new and different and u...

  11/11 UPDATE: The repercussions of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally are still being felt. North and South Dakota currently rank among the high...

CRAZY numbers of people fled the cities and ran for the hills for local recreation and a sense of freedom this summer. It's impact is la...

There was an actual rockslide in our little part of the world this summer... and then there is the proverbial rockslide of Covid-19 that has...

Still WAY too many people not willing to wear a mask. Some people are hitting home runs wearing masks... and some people are hiding behind i...

Hiked a trail this week with a bridge out 4 miles in. You could cross the creek with some effort, but it was not an easy thing. A small meta...

Lots of hiking for me this spring/early summer. LOTS of wildflowers too. Good to find some positive pops of color in all of the Covid gloom....

I looked REALLY hard to find a good quote about FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY. And that's what it comes down to, people. With all of our Am...

Totally pandemic related, and totally school year/summer break related. There is a fine line for sure between what we were doing and what it...

I feel like this is one of those where the concept is just a little off. Spring time rains in the north cascades ARE a little rare -- and ra...

Kids, parent, staff, teachers and schools this year made the best of it. "Happy" may be taken with a grain of salt, but it was sti...

Black Lives Matter. There is SO much going wrong. What is happening in our country right now needs leadership and compassion.

Back from late May and a sneaking suspicion that many of my students might have started losing interest in school... funny that since SO man...

It this time of social distancing, I have been closer to my family than just about anything else. Finally coming around to online social obl...

Getting a little ahead of myself, but I've been sitting on Episode 12 for several days now due to problems with uploading... Anyway, no....

One of those silent strips where I hopefully got the expressions and gestures telling most of the story :) Spring rain is good in the arid w...

In this video I demonstrate an observational drawing challenge using sad faces. Sometimes in class we would draw quickly, switch poses, ...

In 1972 my little western town of Winthrop, WA decided to re-brand as a wooden boardwalk, "western" in the old fashioned send of t...

The final polar bear post card painting from my B.E.A.R chat video late last week. If you want to see this painting in action take a scro...