I’m about to embark on a short but intense earth living journey. Totally stoked and utterly intimidated, these are my reasons why.

This sweet Merriam's Chipmunk has been so stoked to find our bird feeders :) There are currently two hanging out, we believe one male and one female, with this being the male. He runs up and down the patio stairs between food and shelter, stopping to eat while swaying his tail horizontally in a hypnotic rhythm. This is the first time we have seen a dust-bathing Chipmunk, and it looks so satisfying, doesn't it? Check out my Sand Bathing Owl post for more deets on why animals d

Written in the sand, left in the leaves, scratched into the bark, and drifting on the wind, through awareness of the tracks and sign of animals, we learn to perceive the diversity of magnificent wild beings interacting with the landscape and each other.

We went out to one of our favorite coastal California tracking spots over the weekend and found a gorgeous display of Great Horned Owl tracks in the sand dunes, accompanied by multiple sand bathing spots. You can see three of the ten or so sand bathing spots in the foreground. Owls, along with many other birds and mammals, bath in dust or sand to take care of their skin, fur and feathers as it helps remove excess oil and parasites. They spread their wings and flap, wriggle an

True anthropomorphism is not necessarily the attribution of emotion, but the projection of the psychological and emotional complexity, of humans onto other beings.