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New Stuff
May 13   At last, I've gotten it together to present some beautiful photos of tundra swans in flight, taken at Middle Creek this past March.
    Also, I've had a story accepted by Perihelion SF, and so I hope to be updating my bibliography shortly.
Apr. 28   Where goes all my time? I had prepared the following sequence last week, but . . . Anyway, here are a pair of beautiful osprey.
6   A photo sequence of a bald eagle going fishing.
Mar. 31   I finished my photo coverage of the event Wild About Animals, and my page includes links to all the photo albums.
Mar. 24   On Saturday, March 16, 2013, was the 14th annual event, Wild About Animals, at the Penn State Ag Arena. It was a huge success, and my page includes links to photo albums of the activities (I haven't finished yet, but it's a beginning).
Mar. 9   Last Sunday, Sue and I went to Middle Creek to see snow geese; however, they weren't on the lake. Saving the trip were a thousand tundra swans as well as an assortment of other waterbirds, including the duck, northern shoveler.
Feb. 24   What, I'm gone for two weeks and return with more pileated woodpecker photos? I'm afraid so, but these four portraits are something else.
    In other good news, I've had a story accepted for the Whortleberry Press anthology Strange Lucky Mysteries: ":Born Lucky" (and I really have to update my biblio to bring it up to date, such as listing Dogcasts of two stories).
Feb. 10   Trading places: A comparison between a hairy woodpecker and a pileated woodpecker, on the tree trunk and in flight.
Jan. 28   My continuation of the release of Canace the bald eagle: His first flight in the wild.
20   On the previous Thursday, I participated in the release of Canace the bald eagle. Wow!
6   So much to update for the new year, and hopefully I'll get to it next week. In the meantime, here is a sequence of a beautiful gray squirrel and snow.
1   I thought I'd begin the new year (and Happy New Year! everyone) with something a little different: An oncoming glider photo sequence.
Dec. 24   Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate), and here is a colorful sequence: A pilated woodpecker and his bright red cap (Santa Claus?).
16   For today's update, I returned to the northern flicker, a wonderfully colorful woodpecker (especially in flight).
    And perhaps spare a thought or prayer for the unfortunate children and adults killed in Newtown, Conn. (as well as for those elsewhere in the world), a tragedy that should not have happened.
9   A fast, new page but one of beauty: Great blue heron.
2   I'm slowly catching up with my freelancing. So I thought to perhaps try to catch up a little with my bird list, adding today an American coot.
Nov. 25   Something new for me: A great crested flycatcher.
18   Updating continues! Today it's the turn of the downy woodpecker.
11   For a long time now I've intended to update my hairy woodpecker photos, and today I think I did the bird justice, including male, female, and immature hairies.
4   Today I summarized hawk watching at Jo Hays Vista by seven photos for three days at Jo Hays.
Oct. 28   Before Sandy hits central PA, I thought I'd put up a page somewhat earlier in the day, since I don't know if power will be consistent during the coming week. Anyway, today's page includes a series of photos of broad-winged hawks.
21   Oops. Missed last week. But here's a sequence of two kestrels interacting with one another.
    And my second page of the day features a viceroy, a butterfly that is a monarch mimic.
7   Another new butterfly! (Who'd think October would be a good month for butterflies?) It's a skipper called sachem, enjoying calico aster nectar.
Sept. 30   A female fiery skipper (a small and pretty butterfly) posed at length for me today on purple Utah daisies.
23   I've updated my page on the black swallowtail (a gorgeous butterfly), with three new photos and some text.
16   On top of the freelancing, I have a wretched cold, but allow me to show a pretty if small butterfly: Peck's skipper.
9   Intense freelancing continues, but today a short break for a look at the black-and-white warbler.
2   More hummingbirds - featuring hummer action!
Aug. 26   It's hummer migration time, and to celebrate the arrival (and departure) of so many ruby-throated hummingbirds are two pages, one of females (by the rose of sharon) and of males (by the feeder).
19   Freelancing is crazy, but I really wanted to present my photos of the colorful dragonfly, blue dasher.
12   My freelancing continues to be wild, but here is a photo of a remarkable damselfly: the brilliant ebony jewelwing.
July 29   The excellent year for butterflies continues, and today here is the common ringlet, a brown butterfly that looks anything but common.
25   Life is rather chaotic at the moment (freelancing feast, so to say); but I had some slow moments today, and here is a particularly striking moth: eight-spotted forester.
15   A beautiful hummingbird moth: Snowberry clearwing.
5   Four firework photos from the July 4 festivities.
1   And here's a new butterfly with which to start the month: a little wood-satyr (a medium-size brown butterfly).
    Two weeks ago, I posted photos of the eastern amberwing (a very colorful if tiny dragonfly with amber wings), and today I encountered a female eastern amberwing, and included two photos of her on my amberwing page.

Artwork

Cartoons:
The alien . . . Bushwacks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Clinton censured and his dress stain Feline and revolutionary Gateway to heaven Hillary Clinton, voting for Hillary, and her Cookoff Luck My Newtbook (many of 'em) $500 billion bailout Florida elections Remember! Saddam Hussein Award for Democracy The stain A thoughtful pair Westward, a tour thru the U.S. Zorro discovers Viagra

Paintings (computer & traditional):
Birthday landscapes Bluebird of happiness Castlerigg Stone Circle Copying portraits A Fantasy Some Flowers Knife and paper towel Sue portraits Swans Two Lake District watercolors Wet landscapes

Pen & inks:
Driven graphics Frentic graphics Two pleasant and two unpleasant drawings skeletal humor vole and wave Wooden personality  

3D artwork & videos:
Allosaur skull Fantasy pipes (several pages) A Viking ship (with AVI) and some historical info Amundsen's ship Gjøa, Videos (with links by browser) Streaming video The Red Spot  


Felines

Cloudberry:
As an artist Defining moment First monitor For a few inches more Her new tail [George] Mouse scratching post Not mom On a roll Presence with presents Standing Treats

George (the kitten): Coming of age

Lucy: Reflections Lucy and Mom Bear

Muffin:
Escort service The Persian in the sun Saying hello

Moonshadow (Street urchin):    In the crater


Free graphics

Bar none (lines/rules) Flash clip art: Color-changing, 3d bars Geometric tiles (vivid) Real textures from Dino National Monument and the Petrified Forest


Javascript & Flash
Note: Net 3+ or IE 3+ for these.
(All my frames--if used--are anguish-free: you leave, they go.)



Lands of Woz

Books by Robert Woznicki, world traveler and historian


Pipes & tobacco

Ben Wades and more Paul Bonaquisti Tim Fuller Mark Tinsky My own design Le Nuvole Obtaining Condor Odds and ends (pipes) Pipe smoking and links 3D pipe cutaway Tobacco reviews


Places & Photos

Bryce Canyon: sunset and lightning, Fairyland castle, Along the rim to Fairyland Point, By moonlight, Trees, Bryce Point, western chipmunk, golden mantled ground squirrel, Steller's jay Kodachrome Basin: Lizards, Bees Petrified Forest National Park Zion National Park, Zion mule deer Petroglyphs Remembering the Red Fleet dinosaur trackway

Capitol Reef National Park:
Hickman Natural Bridge and trail Puzzle: anomaly or dino track? Three lizards Yellow-bellied marmot Goblin Valley State Park

Dinosaur National Monument:
The Quarry Juniper + personality Textures of silence Gopher snake and petroglyph: video (2.2 megs) or stills

Grasmere (Cumbria, England):
Light moods Mountain sheep Misty walks one and two My first fellwalk A stroll to Calf Crag Herdwick video or still Sunrise 20mm views by High Raise Twilight on Silver How Walking in weather

Iceland:
A horse ride Snorri's quotable line A stroll thru Akureyri The 10-hour tour Whooping swans and love

Coopers Pond (State College, Pennsylvania), 2004-
At the bird feeder: A list of my PA bird pages (with text and photos)

Butterflies: A list of my PA butterfly pages (with text and photos)

Bronty the groundhog; Baby groundhog and leaf
Squirrels: Eastern chipmunks at work and play; Captain AC Chipmunk; Arboreal chipmunk; Chipmunk fight; Chipmunk plus leaf: A disappearing act;
Gray squirrels, Gone with the Corn, Gray stretch, Tiny Scoiattolo Jr., Dashing through snow, Mom and her two babies, In honor of Squirrel Appreciation Day, Jan. 23, 2011; Red squirrels; Fox squirrels
The night visitor: a raccoon; and a daytime raccoon encounter
White-tailed fawns; white-tailed deer and the leaf
Eastern cottontail; the bunny hop; and Baby cottontail
An opossum; and Peggy the opossum (2011)
Red fox Black bear

American toads in love

Dragonflies: Twelve-spotted skipper; an orange meadowhawk; the orange meadowhawk is a cherry-faced meadowhawk; the eastern pondhawk; flight photos of a common green darner; the widow skimmers

Damselflies: Spreadwing damselfly

Bees: A tiny bee with an incredible amount of pollen

Bugs: Golden-backed snipe fly

Flowers: A blossom pair Two Flower macros Hibiscus flowers "Soft" magnolia blossom Dreamy roses of Sharon Touch-me-not and dewdrops A lovely bouquet Coltsfoot New England aster (and bug friends) Flowering dogwood

Aerial duel between a raven and a red-tailed hawk American toad Blue water bowl Damselflies; and More damselflies; and Two dragonfly and a tiny red dragonfly and a happy dragonfly Fireworks 2005 and 2006 and 2009 Foggy landscapes Frogs: bullfrogs, spring peepers, and wood frogs Giant ice sculptures A green bee Hawks: Fall 2005 hawk watch; Red-tailed hawk portraits and Says hey; Jo Hayes Vista, fall 2008; Identify that hawk, 2009. Hummingbird moth Ice landscapes by moonlight Ice X ten: forest icicles Icicles: Simple and complex, Dreamy and plane, Columns and bridge, amazing ice patterns, or ice art and snow creatures Jacks Mountain Hawkwatch, spring 2008 Knock knock: A red-bellied woodpecker wakes up a flying squirrel Starlings mobbing a Cooper's hawk: patterns Tundra swan patterns Turtles: eastern painted turtle, snapping turtle, Mom snapping turtle; and 2011 mom snapping turtles At Tussey Mountain: A red-tailed hawk Turkey vultures and golden eagles at Tussey Mountain Tussey spring 2006 hawk watch Winter dewdrop worlds

Bald Eagle State Park, Pennsylvania
Bald eagle flight, Eagle watch 1, eagle watch 2, (the best) Eagle watch 3 Monarch butterfly roundup Wild Resource Festival Immature bald eagle (2007) Eagle family watch May 30, 2009 and June 19, 2009 Eagle family watch June 11, 2010 and June 17, 2010

Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area (80,000 snow geese, March 2009)
Photos: Snow geese Swarming sequence Tundra swan and 2 snow geese wearing bands Individual snow geese
Videos: Snow geese flyby (3.8 megs) and the goosestorm (15.3 megs)
Middle Creek, 2010
Photos: snow geese on ice and the beginning of a great swarm Blue snow geese Favorite snow geese Remembering
Videos: A brief swarm (16 seconds) Massive snow goose swarm (80 seconds)

Middle Creek, 2011
Photos: Two intense swarm photos Challenged flying Tundra swans at Middle Creek
Videos: Heart of a Swarm (34 seconds, 3.8 megs) and Every Which Way (55 seconds, 5.5 megs)

Middle Creek, 2012
Photos: Lovely tundra swans
Videos: Beginnings (13 seconds, 1.1 megs) and Swarming (41 seconds, 2.8 megs)

Long Island
Autumn flower macros Bayard Cutting Arboretum & young bunny Birds along the north fork Callery pear Canadian gosling 75 days with a Canadian goose family Catkin to leaf: 6 Aspen macros and Aspen overview Explosive heart of a daisy Firry snowman Flower to leaf: 5 Norway maple macros Fowler's toad & 2 macros Golden Eyes: a garter snake Hawk 2001: ice storm Pseudo ladybug Sunset . . . with flare

Saddle Rock (Long Island)
Backlit flowers Black-eyed Susans and punk bee Blue jay and cardinal A blue jay story Bunny hop Colorful damsels Extreme ladybugs & Ladybug antics Geodesic dandelion seeds Indian blanket Iris yellow flag Light through dewdrop Mallard family values Merlin: a pretty falcon Nightshade and other macros Nuthatch and kinglet Patience on the balcony Pinecone babies pussy willow catkins in bloom and growth cycle of female catkins on a white birch Rhododendrons Rose & bee, Hoverfly Snowstorm (night), 2003 Spring 2002 flower macros Spring 2003: first pussy willow catkins and first crocuses Tiger swallowtail Water lilies 1 and 2 Web dewdrops Wetland in winter Wild violets


An undefined miscellany

Wild About Animals, Apr. 11, 2009, includes pages of photos and video || Visiting Centre Wildlife Care (2011)
Wild About Animals 2010, Apr. 3, 2010
Wild About Animals 2011, Apr. 27, 2011
Wild About Animals 2012, Apr. 7, 2012

Centre County PAWS Walk-A-Thon, Apr. 18, 2009

First K9 Veterans Day at the PA Military Museum, 18 Mar. 2012

Clip art? Bobbie Peachey! An alien lifeform . . . or a hibiscus? Butterfly macros (Red admiral!) Everyone knows . . . The fisheye and the corkscrew willow Flower macros Forsythias ice macros Idle remarks (thoughts after 3 a.m.) Jan Martin, Best Friends, and Tylertown Jim Baen, 1943-2006 2003 lunar eclipse and a big moon photo Northern Lights Peeking dove and "donut" bokeh Remembering whiteout spring '98 (via photos) Spring 2001: dew drops Spring 2003: Tree seed macros Spring 2007: Seven signs Sunspot 930 3 zooms to dew Venus transit Ultra wide angle versus wide angle photography Yes people Zuni fetishes My review of Philomena's Homecoming


Visitors  

The first incarnation of these pages began 24 June 1995; the present one, at my own domain, began 25 October 1997.
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Writing and DTP

Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing
My bibliography, including comments on stories and magazines.
A reading: Masters of Fiction Coffeehouse, Schlow Library, Feb. 2009

Editing experiences
Alas the en dash Danger! Passive Voice Font selection (standard manuscript preparation) No time for Times William Morris: the Victorian who wasn't (with a free font)

A few of my DTP projects (artist-designer for hire!)
Beautiful Soup by Harvey Jacobs
A Brother Like Me by Harry Dunbar; Obituary; Highlights from Dunbar on Black Books
Growing the Soul by Anita Kirschner



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