Tag Archives: Nature

Do you have submechanophobia, Charlie Brown?

Posted on November 17, 2025 by ksedinger

I never knew about a thing called submechanophobia until we traveled to Hawaii in 2021, and The Daughter reacted very strongly against the idea of going to the Pearl Harbor Memorial and seeing the Arizona. The idea of looking down at a sunken … Continue reading →

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“When the waves turn minutes to hours”

Posted on November 10, 2025 by ksedinger

Fifty years ago today, one of the most notorious maritime disasters in American history happened when the Edmund Fitzgerald, a mighty freighter of the Great Lakes, foundered and sank near the eastern end of Lake Superior. The story is well … Continue reading →

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A guest in our milkweed

Posted on July 30, 2025 by ksedinger

A much hoped-for phenomenon has come to pass: there is a little friend making a major change in his life, and he’s doing it in the milkweed outside our front door. (OK, he hasn’t started his actual transition yet. But … Continue reading →

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Spring in the Woods (supposedly)

Posted on April 16, 2025 by ksedinger

The other day I went to Chestnut Ridge on what was the first sunny Sunday morning in what felt like months. Of course, being a typical Western New York spring, it was a cold morning and nothing at all is … Continue reading →

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Incomprehensible….

Posted on April 12, 2025 by ksedinger

I’m not sure why, but I find it comforting sometimes to think about the vastness of the universe and our own general insignificance when one thinks about that very vastness. And here’s the thing: you don’t even have to think … Continue reading →

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My world (most of it, anyway) in one photo

Posted on October 26, 2024 by ksedinger

It’s amazing to me how much of my life has unfolded within the boundaries of this photo: (via)

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Aurora and Orion

Posted on October 11, 2024 by ksedinger

Last night, the amazing Aurora Borealis: This morning, Orion in all his glory: I took both of these Ophelia (my phone), by the way! As much as I love Miranda, the Lumix FZ1000ii, phone cameras are amazing these days…and in … Continue reading →

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The Hunter rises again!

Posted on October 9, 2024 by ksedinger

On mornings when The Wife has to work at the downtown Buffalo site (currently twice a week), it falls to me to take Hobbes out for his morning constitutional, so as to save her some time. Yesterday morning I took … Continue reading →

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An abstraction from nature

Posted on September 23, 2024 by ksedinger

A few weeks ago I spent a morning at a particular spot in Chestnut Ridge Park, about as far into the park as one can get without getting out and walking. It’s a spot most people at the Ridge don’t … Continue reading →

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On the wing

Posted on July 10, 2024 by ksedinger

I doubt I’ll ever have the patience to really embrace wildlife photography as my genre of choice, but I have to say that I’m very happy with how these two shots turned out. One nice thing about photography I’m discovering is … Continue reading →

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