From 1997 to the summer of 2003 I lived at a little camp in the woods of southwestern Mississippi. That's me preparing breakfast over my morning campfire, in my "outside kitchen." Most of the thousands of Web pages at my various Internet sites, and the first three years of my Naturalist Newsletters, have been produced inside the little trailer at the right in the photo.

In the summer of 2003, for a year I moved my trailer to another spot near Natchez, where I continued just as I had at my other camp. At this new location I focused more on permaculture. You may be interested in seeing the solar cooker some friends and I constructed and which I used -- when the sun was shining.

The picture below shows me in October, 2003, standing among the goldenrods in the "Loblolly Field" near my trailer at this second location.

Since late 2004 I have bounced around, collecting notes on the plants and animals of  California's Sierra Nevadas, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, central Kentucky, the central Mexican state of Querétaro, and now in Mexico's southernmost state, up against Guatemala, Chiapas.