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About this site…

Personal websites seem very 1990s these days. Virtually everything I say online these days is in my Substack, Bluesky, and Facebook posts. Follow my day-to-day posts here: Substack: Always Something to See, Patrick J. Lynch. Articles about the visual world, and my visual work. Bluesky: Mostly about my artwork, photography, and recent books.  Facebook: My ...

The Age of Reptiles: How One Mural Changed The Way The World Saw Dinosaurs

My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced Read this article on my Substack column, Always Something to See.

The Golden Guides: Pocket-sized Windows to the Natural World

Masterpieces of communication design for science education Read on my Substack Always Something to See.

On the Outermost Shore: Henry Beston and the Literature of Cape Cod

Meditations on a life-long favorite book, and on the ways Cape Cod has changed since Beston's day Read on my Substack: Always Something to See

Starting Over With Guitar at 72

Music, the aging brain, and the satisfactions of being bad at something good Read on my Substack, Always Something to See.

Flowers—The geometry of nectar

How flowers and their pollinators shaped each other. My Substack column: Always Something to See: Flowers—The geometry of nectar

In Praise of the Dandelion

Essential food for our early-emerging pollinators. Read on Substack.

Switch Grass

Switch Grass Meigs Point, Hammonasset Beach State Park 41° 15' 1.54" N, 72° 32' 22.81" W, 91.00 M November 17, 2019 #TheAtlanticShore

Tuttle’s Point, Guilford, CT

41° 15' 53.37" N, 72° 40' 30.99" W, 90° M, November 25, 2019, 14:55, #TheAtlanticShore

Chaffinch Island and the West River

Chaffinch Island, Guilford, Connecticut. 41° 15' 55.81" N, 72° 40' 32.36" W, 90° M, November 25, 2019, 15:20, #TheAtlanticShore