Ah Chooo! It's my pollen photo on nbcnews.com

It's my pollen photo with a story about the upcoming allergy season  on nbcnews.com.

Waiting for dinner

A spider waits for prey on an apple blossom in an orchard in southwestern Oregon on Wednesday, April 16, 2014.

Surfs up

It's my photo in on the Conde Nast Traveller website.

My photo on today.com

It's my photo in the Spring photo gallery on today.com.

Snuggle time

A pair of barn owl owlets snuggle in their nest box in the top of an old barn on a farm near Elkton, Ore., on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Barn owns are the most widely distributed species of owl in the world.

I tried, but couldn't get all four of the owlets in one picture. Maybe next time.

A shaft of sunlight highlights on of the owlets.

Feeling ticklish?

A live backlegged tick, also known as a deer tick, crawls on the surface on a penny. The tick was pulled from the skin of a pet dog at a home near Roseburg, Ore., on Monday, March 31, 2014. Due to a mild winter in western Oregon, the tick population seems to be booming this spring. Blacklegged ticks are known to carry Lyme disease and other tick-transmitted diseases.

I'm pretty much a "live and let live" kind of person, but a tick feeding from my beloved dog is another matter.

Golden Gate

I'm visiting California this week and we did a little sight seeing in San Francisco today. The Golden Gate Bridge is hard to beat.

I found this bulldog waiting for his surfer owner in the parking lot under the bridge.