Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 in
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Travel Betty and I are off venturing in the foothills of Northern California on the beginning of another screening tour. One of the things we like best about traveling like this is how we get to see so much of the US that we might not be able to visit otherwise. We get to meet people [...]
Tags: California, digital, film, Fire, foothills, Half Dome, Merced River, Mono Lake, Pentax K1000, photograph, photography, Sonora, tufa, video, Yosemite
Posted by admin on May 10, 2013 in
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Remembrances This is the season of remembrance and I suppose as we get older we can expect our opportunities to mourn and grieve to line up and bang at our metaphorical portals. This one is a bit tardy, but nevertheless, I choose to now write my remembrances. Last summer Betty and I were traveling in the [...]
Tags: Bill Haley, California, Cam Cunningham, Fats Domino, Idaho, K & L Bistro, Little Richard, Magical Realism, Navajo, Nova Scotia, poetry, Sebastopol, Texas, Tiny Bradshaw
Posted by admin on May 3, 2013 in
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Travel It seems like whenever I think it may be time to move on from Idaho and experience some other part of the world that moment of indecision coincides with a trip to the one-hundred-five-year-old Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding environs in southeastern Oregon. The country there is a mix of high sage and bitterbrush [...]
Tags: Alvord Desert, birds, Blitzen River, branding, buckaroos, Buena Vista Ponds, calves, Central Patrol Road, Diamond, Diamond Loop, French Glen, Harney County, horses, lassos, Malheur, mountain bluebirds, mustangs, P Ranch, Pete French Round Barn, ruddy ducks, sandhill cranes, Steens Mountain, The Narrows
Posted by admin on April 26, 2013 in
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Travel The red in the rocks to the north of where we stood bled like rusty paint into the juniper-piñon green. To the south and west, the chalky white buttes and ridges jutted and alternately reminded me of the ends of white spuds and crumbling teeth from a shark’s jaw fossil. The streets in the little [...]
Tags: Aravaipa Canyon, Caineville, Capitol Reef, Delta, Dugway, Escalante, Fremont River, Gail Larrick, Goblin Valley, Guy Biederman, Hanksville, Henry Mountains, La Luz Canyon, Mendocino Coast, Palouse Falls, Pawnee Grasslands, Pine Ridge, Saguaro cacti, San Franciso, Seattle, Teasdale, Torrey, Tubac, Ulm Pishkun Buffalo Jump, Utah
Posted by admin on April 19, 2013 in
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Travel Wednesday Betty and I drove from Boise to Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, via US Highway 95. Well, not all the way; the first hundred or so miles we journeyed along Idaho Highway 55 through Horseshoe Bend, up the Payette River Canyon into the high long valley that runs through Cascade, Donnelly and McCall, Idaho [...]
Tags: appaloosa, Cascade, Clearwater River, Donnelly, Horseshoe Bend, Idaho, Idaho Highway 55, Lapwai, Lewis and Clark, Lewiston, McCall, Moscow, New Meadows, Nez Perce, Palouse, Pullman, Salmon River, Spring, US Highway 95, Washington, White Bird Hill
Posted by admin on April 12, 2013 in
Musings Betty and I are going north to Moscow, Idaho, to screen our documentary film BRAVO! and as always, the prospect of traveling to a new location leaves me with—besides a sense of elation—a sense of trepidation…sort of, anyway. Not that I am on edge like I would be if I had to travel to Syria [...]
Tags: Big Hatchet, Bravo!, Bureau of Land Management, Chihuahuan Desert, Columbus, El Norte, Hermanas, Mexico, Moscow, New Mexico, Pancho Villa, pistols, quail, ravens, Stetson hat, Syria, Tres Hermanas, Undocumented, Vietnam
Posted by admin on April 5, 2013 in
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Writing Betty and I have been on the road it seems all winter and the early weeks of spring. So when we returned home to Boise eight days ago, our yard looked a little haggard, as if we needed to spend some serious work time. Pruning and digging and raking and planting all need to be [...]
Tags: Archetypes, blog, blogging, Boise, Carl Jung, Collective Unconscious, Metaphor, Pruners, shovels, writing, Yard Work
Posted by admin on August 20, 2012 in
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Travel Yesterday the blue in the sky acted like a magnet, dragging me into the puffed-wheat world of clouds. The road bored into a thick hardwood forest. The humidity and temperature pitied my dry-skinned Idaho-ness and remained in the realm of comfort. Betty and I showed at Shiloh battlefield early, before the midday Sunday visitor rush [...]
Tags: Antietam, Bark Road, bayonet charges, Bloody Pond, catfish, Catfish Hotel, Civil War, Corinth-Pittsburg Road, East Corinth Road, Gettysburg, grape shot, Greasy Grass, Hornet's Nest, Khe Sanh, Little Big Horn, musket balls, Normandy, Peach Orchard, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Shiloh National Military Park, Spottsylvania Courthouse, Tennessee, Tennessee River, Vietnam
Posted by admin on June 22, 2012 in
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Travel Several weeks ago, Betty and I led some intrepid friends on a photo safari to the Camas Prairie area of Camas County, northeast of Boise. Typical late May weather brought wind and fog and rain and snow instead of sunny skies with puffy clouds sailing east to west. It was Memorial Day weekend so we [...]
Tags: art, aspen, Bennett Mountain, Boise, Camas, Camas County, Camas Prairie, Cat Creek Summit, corrals, cranes, curlew, ducks, Fairfield, geese, Geoff Krueger, painting, phalaropes, photography, snipes, Soldier Mountains
Posted by admin on June 12, 2012 in
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Travel The weekend before last, Betty and I ate a sumptuous Sunday supper with our daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Baruch Ellsworth, at The Corson Building in the Georgetown area of Seattle, Washington. After dining we headed back north to our lodging and noticed Mount Rainier, whose bottom was obscured by clouds that made the mountain [...]
Tags: 1968, American West, art, artillery, beauty, bombs, cinquefoil, Indian paintbrush, Khe Sanh, lupine, man, meadows, Mount Rainier, mountains, nature, Olypic Peninsula, Picasso, Seattle, The Corson Building, Washington
