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I’m happy to share the news that I have two images accepted in a show at the Larson Gallery in Yakima Larson Gallery’s annual Central Washington Artists’ Exhibition is one of the longest running juried art exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest. …features current artworks by artists living in ten...

When the winter crew of juncos, white crowned sparrows, house finches, robins, cedar waxwings, mourning doves and collared doves gathered at our place this fall, some red breasted nuthatches hung with them briefly. The last species was a new backyard bird for me. The tree is a linden, a...

I also shoot w the OM1. I use the 300 f4, often w a 1.4x extender. These are 35 mm field of view equivalents of 600 mm, or 840 mm. I love the image stabilization. Jay

@Cabezon “…figurative blast” The erudition of your writing erupts from the page. Jay

I was also always motivated to wear a life jacket, so I could immediately keep my wits about me if I needed to help kids, or others, in an unexpected situation, and mostly kept up the practice after the kids were grown up and elsewhere. Thanks for the reminder! I stick w buoyant pfds that...

I recall some one on the old forum where, after catching enough fish on damsels, just started picking apart live damsels and throwing parts on the water to see what minimum was needed to attract takes. In his telling, just the blue abdomen that day. So just a body and hackle has appealed to...

Interesting, thx. J

Thx Looks like it’s complicated wrt who administers particular lands, wdfw, dnr, or national forest. I can think of some geology I’d like to see, with trails, but too far out and back for a day hike. Usually people get there on mtn bikes. I’ll have to carefully check out the particular...

Freshly stocked fish will hit a birds nest trolled shallow. When the fish move down and behave like real fish, a hares ear is good and may work throughout the season if you know how to fish it and where. (Don’t ask, lol) Other flies on the top for lake insects as hatches take off as the summer...

Totally agree that a variety of flies can be made floating, after having been introduced by a friend to a foam fly w a lip in front, I forget the name of the fly and its inventor. Over time I found that some flies w foam may wiggle without a lip just from the turbulence a bulk of foam creates...

Yes. The body should be gray and tied thin. https://charliesflybox.com/blogs/step-by-step-tutorials/sparkle-dun Jay

OK, I’ll confess, there was one day on Leech when they were taking Callibaetis and my sparkle duns, and then later they were refusing my fly even though the real bugs were still around. I switched up to a leech, caught a fish, and sampled it. It was now eating little antish/waspy things. So...

My 2 patterns for hatching Callibaetis on the left, and two good midge emergers on themright.

My experience has been that parachute Adams work sometimes just fine, but may be refused at other times. I’ve settled on sparkle dun in gray as an emerger taken without hesitation or refusal, and similarity, a gray cripple. 14 or 16. Jay

Greensburg IN. High thin clouds and jet trails. Jay

And now multiple species of orca are likely. Interesting! https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-research-reveals-full-diversity-killer-whales-two-species-come-view-pacific-coast Jay

The last shot catches the act, and in addition to showing the hood in profile, reveals how it uses its tail to push down on the water to help raise it up for the dive, which I did not know. Good shot! Jay

very cool that you got the olive in the beak and pictures in the olive tree setting. I took my visiting daughter around locally for some "nature" a couple of days before christmas. at WE Johnson Park at the usual spot we saw up to a couple of dozen bluebirds. Gray day, low light, high ISO long...

I always enjoy seeing west side bird pictures with lichens and moss. Jay

in the canyon of the Grande Ronde river a couple of months ago, great blue heron took flight from perch at tip top of trees. (not my backyard) ...j