• swim with whale sharks
  • swim with whales
  • spend the night in a tree
  • visit all the TX state parks
  • Whooping Crane Festival
jun 19 2011 ∞
nov 13 2011 +
  • leaves falling from trees
  • raindrops on my tent
  • crickets
  • wind in tall dry grass
  • cicadas in the summer
  • frogs after the rain
  • leaves crunching underfoot
  • snow crunching underfoot
  • thunder
  • pug snores
jan 31 2011 ∞
feb 1 2011 +
  • akimbo
  • cerulean
  • authentic
  • susurrus
  • nebulous
  • periwinkle
  • phosphorescent
  • brackish
  • zephyr
  • lackadaisical
  • rime
  • gumption
  • knapsack
  • gipsy
  • mumuration
  • vagabond
feb 15 2010 ∞
jan 8 2012 +
  • fresh mint
  • tomato plants
  • dirt
  • cut grass
  • good coffee
  • Christmas trees
  • libraries
  • chlorine
  • honeysuckle
feb 1 2010 ∞
jan 10 2011 +
  • Galapagos Islands
  • Redwood Forest
  • Italy
  • Natural History Museum, London
  • India
  • Africa
  • Himalayas
  • Victoria Falls
  • Lake Baikal
  • Slovenia
  • AT
jan 24 2010 ∞
jan 2 2012 +
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. Diane Arbus

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, ever..._Carl Sagan_

dec 21 2009 ∞
dec 21 2009 +
  • artist/illustrator
  • marine biologist
  • NatGeo photographer
  • human rights lawyer
  • astrophysicist
  • explorer
dec 21 2009 ∞
dec 21 2009 +
  • start an MFA program
  • spend more nights outside (February hammock adventure)
  • work on nature journaling
  • get to 600 Project Noah spottings
jan 2 2012 ∞
jan 2 2012 +
  • rainbow chicken coop
  • outdoor bathtub
  • kitchen garden
  • paper bird mobile
  • state bird illos
  • teak bench
  • nature spa room
  • front deck gear rack
  • bottle tree
  • twinkle lights
  • vine awning
  • nice bathroom colors
apr 20 2011 ∞
apr 28 2011 +
  • 5 Years Time :: Noah and The Whale
  • Mad World :: Alex Parks
  • Sunshine Song :: Jason Mraz
  • Girl Named Tennessee :: Needtobreathe
  • The Quiz :: Hello Saferide
  • I Like Giants :: Kimya Dawson
  • Hey, Soul Sister :: Train
  • Sweet Little Lies :: Michael Franti & Spearhead
  • Life :: Jeffery Lewis
jun 3 2010 ∞
jun 6 2011 +
  • Ellen Meloy
  • Edward Abbey
  • Bill Bryson
  • Jane Austen
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
  • David Saderis
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Carl Sagan
  • J.K. Rowling
  • Mary Oliver
feb 1 2010 ∞
mar 8 2011 +
  • The Tale of Despereaux : Kate DiCamillo
  • No one belongs here more than you : Miranda July
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao : Junot Diaz
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower : Stephen Chbosky
  • Tender Morsels : Margo Lanagan
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies : Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
  • My Journey to Lhasa : Alexandra David-Neel
  • A Sand County Almanac : Aldo Leopold
  • The Best Science and Nature Writing of 2008
  • The God Delusion : Richard Dawkins
  • The Time Traveler's Wife : Audrey Niffenegger
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen : Christopher McDougall
dec 24 2009 ∞
dec 25 2009 +
  • Cosmos :: Carl Sagan
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles :: Haruki Murakami
  • The Age of Wonder :: Robert Holmes
  • Hope for Animals and Their World :: Jane Goodall
  • The Dharma Bums :: Jack Kerouac
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :: Douglas Adams
  • Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer :: Novella Carpenter
  • The Portable Atheist :: Christopher Hitchens
  • When You Reach Me :: Rebecca Stead
dec 21 2009 ∞
jun 19 2011 +
  • Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail :: Jennifer Pharr Davis
  • The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe :: Glynis Ridley
  • White Pine :: Mary Oliver
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek :: Annie Dillard
  • Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter :: Seth Grahame-Smith
  • Hike Your Own Hike :: Francis Tapon
  • Wildwood :: Colin Meloy
  • The Bumper Book of Nature :: Stephen Moss
  • Outliers :: Malcolm Gladwell
jan 3 2012 ∞
apr 10 2012 +
  • rhinestones and cowboy hats for frozen yogurt on a Saturday night
  • people who still write checks at the register
  • more products available in camo at the local Wal-Mart
jun 15 2011 ∞
jun 15 2011 +
  • Catfish and Mandala :: Andrew X. Pham
  • Letter to a Christian Nation :: Sam Harris
  • Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild :: Ellen Meloy
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk :: David Sedaris
  • Lirael :: Garth Nix
  • Abhorsen :: Garth Nix
  • A Girl Named Zippy :: Haven Kimmel
  • The Sex Lives of Cannibals :: J. Maarten Troost
  • Veganist :: Kathy Fresto
  • Crazy Sexy Diet :: Kris Carr
  • The Fall :: Garth Nix
  • Castle : Garth Nix
  • Aenir :: Garth Nix
  • Above the Veil :: Garth Nix
  • The Swan :: Mary Oliver
  • Getting Stoned with Savages :: J. Maarten Troost
  • Why I Wake Early :: Mary Oliver
jan 11 2011 ∞
jan 3 2012 +
  • monochromatic
  • black & white
  • diptychs
  • seasons
  • pets
  • portraits
  • self portraits
  • night
  • light
  • collections
feb 15 2010 ∞
feb 15 2010 +
  • collect textures for illos and photos
  • macro bugs
  • star shots and star trails
  • timelapse
  • the year of walking project
  • light paintings
  • cynotypes
feb 1 2010 ∞
feb 15 2010 +
  • blow bubble rings like a dolphin
  • bake bread
  • speak French
jan 21 2010 ∞
jan 2 2012 +
  • several lizards, praying mantis, and little garter snake in my Houston flower beds.
  • 02.09.10 The robins are back!
  • there are tree trunks polka-dotted with green-blue lichens
  • some leaves are white on their underside
  • 12.21.09 A ladybug landed on me. It rode from Smith-Hutson to Lee Drain then walked to the tip of my index finger and flew away. It had seventeen spots.
dec 21 2009 ∞
aug 26 2010 +