2021

Homesteads in the valley
Homesteads in the valley
Homesteads in the valley
Homesteads in the valley

2018

Out at the Road 6 bridge
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Tane
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
James pulling garbage from the stream
Lanxi stream 蘭溪
Lanxi stream 蘭溪

2017

pups visit their birthplace
pups visit their birthplace
rural trash burning
jackfruit
new roof
turn up Laoquan street lane 45 老泉街45巷
44.1 km ride in Mucha with Dan
a grave in the mountain forests
Lin family pagoda
a hefty worm
The Wang house
The Wang house
looking north from the Wang house


an urban section of the walk

2016

back down to the road



Beiyi higway below

貓空尖 562 m
Dan coming up the trail

四面頭山 520m
Philip in the bamboo


Dan on the trail

rattan 黃藤(huáng téng) Calamus quiquesetinervius







burrow


Ejiaoge Shan 鵝角格山 475m
樟湖步道 Zhanghu Trail

木柵貓空樟湖步道 Zhanghu trail head
derailleur failure

starting up the 42


tea farming on the 106乙
tea farms on the 106乙
106乙
pasta drying
Coffee at Helen's on Highway 9
waiting for Ziggy and Guga at Helen's
beginning of the 47-1
Highway 9, 北宜公路
descent back to Xindian 新店
on the 9 above Shiding 石碇
looking north toward Shiding 石碇
road into the reservoir?
ErGeTou, 9 toward Pinglin 坪林
二格山自然中心 K2 nature center
Fields still being cultivated
Weiwei smelling the forest
Scarecrow
Window of hand hewn stone building
Doorways to the jungle
Bamboo charcoal water. What is this used for?
Gardening in the ruins
Old homestead ruins.
Trail flag

2015

tea research
looking north from Helen's Cafe

putting water under the road
water works below the field
Morning from the terrace
Siqianshui 四嵌水 (sì qiàn shuǐ) hike
Bumble bee. getting ready to take off
Bumble bee, emergence
臺灣澤蘭 Eupatorium formosa?
No backhoes? No digging or development...
XindianRiver Tap Water Quality and Volume Protection Area
Weiwei, resting
Dogs on the local forest trail, tired
Hiking trail sign near an area we used to live in
Feathers
Remains of a car?
Farm road - warning that the road is for small vehicle access

2014

Flight over Girl Scout Camp
high over the Girl Scouts Camp
Flight over Girl Scout Camp
Black Cicada test

playing with Hua-zi
flowering dragon fruit, pitaya 火龍果 (huǒlóng guǒ) hylocereus
Long Net Stinkhorn 竹蓀 (zhú sūn) Phallus indusiatu
appraising the damage from typhoon Matmo
pups in the grass (video)
LaTouche's frog 拉都希氏赤蛙 Hylarana latouchii
sunset from home
roof of the Girls Scouts Training Center 中華民國女童軍訓練中心
bee in the plum blossoms

2013

Grey Wagtail 灰鶺鴒 Motacilla cinerea
pups in cold fog
Weiwei
Eyebrowed Thrush 白眉鸫 Turdus obscurus on the water tank

view from the ridge behind the house
dead Brown Spotted Pit Viper 龜殼花 Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus along the road

Magpies at home
The Greater Green Snake 青蛇 (qīng shé) Cyclophiops major
View west from our terrace
Tammy and Kanee walking on a newly cleared section of ridge above our house
New vegetable crop fields emerge
view of northwest Taipei after a storm
home composting
home composting
cherry blossoms

2012

morning walk
Formosan Blue Magpies in the home papaya

long snake by the Peace Cafe in Garden City

2011

CWB installation at the peak
Tammy at Zhitan Mtn 直潭山, 728m
Formosan ferret badger 鼬獾 (you4 huan1) Melogale moschata subaurantiaca in gin trap
Gray-cheeked Fulvetta 繡眼畫眉 Alcippe morrisonia
Black-naped Monarch 黑枕藍鶲 Hypothymis azurea oberholseri
Light-vented Bulbul 白頭翁 Pycnonotus sinensis formosae in budding Taiwan cherry 山櫻花 Prunus campanulata
Eye-browed thrush 白眉鶇 Turdus obscurus
Scaly Thrush, White's Ground Thrush 虎鶇 Zoothera dauma
Gray-headed Pygmy Woodpecker 小啄木 Dendrocopos canicapillus

2010

Formosan Whistling-Thrush 台灣紫嘯鶇 Myophonus insularis dressed for cold
Fruit of our labor - Bunun pumpkin - Hanbilou permaculture project
Common Mapwing 石牆蝶 Cyrestis thyodamas
Formosan Blue Magpie 臺灣藍鵲 (táiwān lán que) Urocissa caerulea
Black Bulbul 紅嘴黑鵯 (hóng zuǐ hēi bēi) Hypsipetes leucocephalus
Formosan Blue Magpie 臺灣藍鵲 Urocissa caerulea
black-throated laughing thrush 黑喉噪眉 (hēi hóu zào méi) Garrulax chinensis

2009

AnBaoJian Mtn 暗寶劍山 680m
Rice field frog, Indian Rice Frog, Cricket Frog 澤蛙, 田雞, 水雞, 沼蛙 Rana limnocharis limnocharis
Dan's new Toyota Zace Surf
Dudu and Lucy
bug on bamboo
蚓腹寄居姬蛛 Argyrodes cylindrogaster (Ariamnes cylindrogaster)
compost tumbler with castors
hazy sunset from the terrace
garden guard
power transmission tower above Girl Scout Traiing Center
illuminated field in front of the Girl Scout Training Center
on the road back home at dusk
rice paddys below the Girl Scout Training Center
Tammy and Baboo at the temple on the lower forest path
Farmhouse
Formosan beauty berry 杜虹 Callicarpa formosana (Amis: chi-hak)

2008

Tammy on the terrace

2004

shrine for local guardian spirit


Elijah
Elijah, Baboo, Tammy