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Marty’s photo of the day #4618: While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I flew from Montana to Madrid, Spain, and then drove several hours west—all without sleeping. We finally stopped in the tiny town of Arenas de San Pedro, where we found an old hotel […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4616: In 2001, Deb and I began our travels for my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. Our initial trip included Blackbird Caye off the coast of Belize, where this American crocodile hung out near the dock each night. I often wonder which animals in our […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4615: This is the Professor Multanovskiy, photographed from Antarctica’s shore, as giant snowflakes drifted down. I shot this photo in 2003, while working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. According to an app that tracks ships, the Professor Multanovskiy is currently along the Russian […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4614: This is a polka-dot tree frog. Photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Marty’s photo of the day #4613: This is a critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, feeding on the ocean floor, off the coast of Bonaire.
Marty’s photo of the day #4611: This tree has more character than the entire Republican Party. Photographed in Zimbabwe.
Marty’s photo of the day #4610: I thought about tightly cropping this night heron photo, but I like how the bird is frozen over the mountains. It’s almost as if I digitally combined two photos, which I didn’t do. Photographed in Mexico.
Marty’s photo of the day #4609: This is Fred the Eyelash Viper. He hung out near the door of the cabana my wife and I were renting the entire time I was working on the Costa Rica section of my second book, Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4608: While I was in Costa Rica, the scarlet macaws taunted me, flying by in a flash before I could raise my camera. Then, on the day I was leaving, this one had mercy and landed on a branch just above my head. “Is this close enough?”
Marty’s photo of the day #4607: If America’s first dictator decides America “Absolutely must have Peru, for security reasons,” the militia in Iquitos is ready to fight!
Marty’s photo of the day #4606: This is a honeycomb cowfish and stoplight parrotfish (initial phase), photographed off the coast of Bonaire.
Marty’s photo of the day #4603: It’s molting time! This is an adolescent gentoo penguin during her first molt, and she seems rather happy about getting rid of all the chick fuzz. Photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Antarctica.
Marty’s photo of the day #4602: Whenever Republicans take control, they want to head north and “Drill baby, drill.” Therefore, this is my frequent reminder that the Arctic is not the “bunch of nothing” they claim it is. This is a close-up of tundra, north of the Arctic Circle.
Marty’s photo of the day #4601: This is an Amazon tree boa, photographed in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru.
Marty’s photo of the day #4600: This is eyeball fungi, photographed in the rainforest of Borneo. Apparently, it is edible. . . . We didn’t test that theory.
The Silver Squad: Rebels With Wrinkles is totally original. But if I had to list my influences for this novel they would be a dollop of Harold and Maude, a pinch of Dexter, a sprinkle of Thelma & Louise, a dash of Bonnie and Clyde, a quiver of Robin Hood, and a curmudgeon of A […]
