I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.
I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.
This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.
My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.
* May not actually equal 1000

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Banner painting by Carl S. Buell.
Oh dear oh dear. As a dog lover married to a typesetter/graphic designer that makes me LOL on so many levels.
And on the 7th day the dog rested? Very funny!
Bill
Total adorableness!
And the pup isn’t too bad, either. <smirk>
Yogi
ALL canines are descended from WOLVES - even miniature poodles.
Thank you for the awesome sermon.
Awesome.
Reminds me of http://www.obeythepurebreed.com/ (which has been around for a while now, but still…)
YOU GOT A PUPPY?!?!? OH PLEEZ
Tell me you got a PUPPY!!!!
I wish I could tell you I got a puppy, Kath. I can barely afford the rabbit. I miss having a puppy. (So does the rabbit.)
I had a wrath, but I ated it.
The sight of the puppy spontaneously healed the bleeding eyeballs I got from the typography. A miracle!
Aww…too bad. I hope you are prosperous enough to have a puppy soon! (I have to admit, the owning a house/having puppies thing sure goes together well, compared to renting/having puppies.)
Best. Post. Ever! Oh teh cutes!