NEW BOOK COMING OUT IN FALL 2025!
I'm thrilled to be working on a new book, this time in collaboration with my talented friend Anita Couchman! A Bird in the Heart will feature Anita's stunning photographs of Monterey Bay area birds. As you can see, she has an incredible eye for subtle motions and angles of light that capture special moments, My essays seek to articulate the messages in those moments—the reminders that we are inseparably one with Nature.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ― proverb
You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush. ― John Burroughs
Here are a few of Anita's images, overlaid with bits of my essays. They won't be presented this way in the book, but serve here as samples of our pairings.
I'm thrilled to be working on a new book, this time in collaboration with my talented friend Anita Couchman! A Bird in the Heart will feature Anita's stunning photographs of Monterey Bay area birds. As you can see, she has an incredible eye for subtle motions and angles of light that capture special moments, My essays seek to articulate the messages in those moments—the reminders that we are inseparably one with Nature.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. ― proverb
You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush. ― John Burroughs
Here are a few of Anita's images, overlaid with bits of my essays. They won't be presented this way in the book, but serve here as samples of our pairings.
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This wonder-full partnership means the world to me, and I hope you'll stay tuned for its outcome in late 2025.
Meanwhile, check out Anita Couchman's photos on her website, on Instagram, and on Facebook, in the Nor Cal Birding group.
About Anita
Anita Couchman grew up on acres of apricots, peaches, and almonds in Escalon, in central California. She first noticed nature's unfolding stories on the family farm, and later while hiking through redwoods, searching for sea glass, and strolling past wetlands. Her lifelong immersion in the natural world brings a nuanced, introspective quality to her wildlife and landscape images. Anita and her photographer husband, Tim, live in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains near Watsonville, California.
I grew up on an apple farm myself, in Watsonville, where Anita ended up—you can see below that we were always two birds of a feather, can't you! We got a kick out of discovering that many decades before we met, our mothers posed us in geometric jumpers in front of pyracantha bushes, Anita with her camera and I with my . . . well, let's assume there's a pencil in my hand.
Meanwhile, check out Anita Couchman's photos on her website, on Instagram, and on Facebook, in the Nor Cal Birding group.
About Anita
Anita Couchman grew up on acres of apricots, peaches, and almonds in Escalon, in central California. She first noticed nature's unfolding stories on the family farm, and later while hiking through redwoods, searching for sea glass, and strolling past wetlands. Her lifelong immersion in the natural world brings a nuanced, introspective quality to her wildlife and landscape images. Anita and her photographer husband, Tim, live in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains near Watsonville, California.
I grew up on an apple farm myself, in Watsonville, where Anita ended up—you can see below that we were always two birds of a feather, can't you! We got a kick out of discovering that many decades before we met, our mothers posed us in geometric jumpers in front of pyracantha bushes, Anita with her camera and I with my . . . well, let's assume there's a pencil in my hand.
