Posted by admin on June 24, 2011 in
Musings I just read an essay about Africa in which the author mused about sitting in an airport waiting for a ride out of Nigeria. As he dealt with delays and uncertainty, he killed time watching the insects fly around as evening arrived and he noticed how the locals trapped them and cooked them in a [...]
Tags: Africa, Boise, C-Rations, cannibalism, civilized, cockroaches, Fanta, grasshoppers, Idaho, insects, katydids, Khe Sanh, leeches, McDermitt, Mormon crickets, Mt. Jefferson, Nevada, Nigeria, Sebastopol, spiders, Vietnam
Posted by admin on June 17, 2011 in
Guest Blogs Guest blogger Sheila Robertson takes us into a snapshot of the past. I stand on a windy hill, watching dust whirl over the dun-colored soil. Two women in black chadors work in a field, gathering purple-flowered herbs, and an old man sits in the shade fingering his evil-eye beads. Wildflowers and thistles wave between large [...]
Tags: Abraham, Alexander the Great, Byzantive Empire, church, Darius III, Diyarbikir, Harran, Hittites, Jethro, Kurdistan, Kurds, Mongols, mosque, Nebuchadnezzar, Sheila Robertson, Suayb City, Tamurlane, Turkey, Turks
Posted by admin on June 10, 2011 in
Musings Betty and I recently spent time in south-east and south-central Oregon with friends, looking at the rippling water, the green-gray sage, the juniper, the snow-covered mountains. While driving between Pete French’s round barn and Diamond, we heard a particularly melodic bird song. I stopped the car and rolled down my window and the sweetest sound [...]
Tags: autism, beauty, bird song, cattle feedyard, cattle working pens, Diamond, Down's syndrome, John Wayne, Oregon, Paul Zarzyski, Pete French's round barn, poem, sage thrasher, sagebrush, Steens Mountain
Posted by admin on June 3, 2011 in
Musings Last week I was yarning with a couple of buddies about water witches. I snatched images out of my memory from way back in my life, thirty years almost and longer. We were standing in a RV park in Lakeview , Oregon and I have no idea why I got started on the subject but [...]
Tags: Douglas fir, geology, limestone, New Mexico, pine, real estate, water wells, water witches, well drillers, willow
