Seen in New Zealand

Islands seen from another island:

Seen in city parks:

Seen from boats, train, and helicopter:

Native birds (and kererū feather) seen:

Seen from shore:

Welcome to Little Duck Island

A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is uninhabited by humans. Except two of us, for a few days.

Fog

On a sunny day

Machias Bay in May

*Actual colorS*

Spillover

As the water in my paintbrush froze into slush, I sketched some shadows spilling over the old rail trail in the last moments before sunset. This stretch of trail fared better than other sections that were washed out by last week's unprecedented coastal flooding.

(The russet-colored blob is one of my favorite features of the trail. In about four months it will be a green mound of blooming lilacs.)