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Although I have neglected my website for the sake of finishing my latest book, The Naturalist at Home, doesn’t mean I have only been sitting at home. Over the summer I visited a mountain river that I return to each year. But this year it was particularly hot when I visited, even up in the mountains, so I spent a lot of time sitting not only alongside the river, but in the river where I watched the various invertebrates such as water striders and wolf spiders. Along the river dragonflies and butterflies flew back and forth. 

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Kelly Brenner

Kelly Brenner is a naturalist, writer and artist based in Seattle. She is the author of THE NATURALIST AT HOME: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us and NATURE OBSCURA: A City’s Hidden Natural World from Mountaineers Books, a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and Pacific Northwest Book Awards. She writes articles about natural history and has bylines in Crosscut, Popular Science, National Wildlife Magazine and others. On the side she writes fiction.