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- Turning Japanese: Blue C Sushi - Friday, July 3rd, 2009
From time to time on Born Again Bird Watcher, I will be sharing some of my enthusiasms and discoveries pertaining to one of my other great interests in life - Japanese food and culture. These will be identified as part of an ongoing series entitled “Turning Japanese.”
With its cosmopolitan environment, Seattle is quite likely the most culturally diverse of all the west coast U.S. cities. It’s location on the Pacific Rim gives it’s already multi-faceted cultural mix an especially strong Asian flavor. I use the word “flavor” intentionally here as one of the most notable reflections of the city’s international atmosphere is the availability of so many wonderful Asian cuisines.
[read more] - New Wingscapes and Swarovski Products - Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
While the Wild Birds Unlimited Vendor Mart 2009 featured a wide variety of interesting and innovative backyard nature related products from many fine companies, the new offerings from two firms, Wingscapes and Swarovski, were particularly notable.
[read more] - Sharing the Love from Seattle - Monday, June 29th, 2009
While I’m here in Seattle for a few days to represent Wingscapes at the Wild Birds Unlimited Vendor Mart 2009, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a little “blog love.”
[read more] - The Well-read Naturalist: Prairie Spring - Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
It was my great pleasure recently to review Prairie Spring, the latest published book of one of America’s great public naturalists, Pete Dunne, for one of America’s great bird watching periodicals, Bird Watcher’s Digest.
[read more] - It’s All There in Black and White - Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Perhaps not unlike many modern photographers, I have precious little experience with black and white, or as it seems to be more recently called, monochrome, photography. A child of the Technicolor generation, I have, with the exception of some early television programs and the classic films that I very much enjoy, always experienced the world in vivid, vibrant color. However with the weather promising clouds and rain during a planned trip to one of my favorite photographic sites, the Portland Japanese Garden, the idea came to me to switch the Canon 40D into monochrome mode and try my hand at a new style.
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