Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 in
Musings,
Photography,
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 3, 2013 in
Birds,
Musings,
Photography,
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
Musings,
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
Musings,
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 5, 2013 in
Musings,
Travel,
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 September 19, 2012 in
Travel But then I did eat lobster. Not one of those big sea-bottom bugs that cleans all the trash off the floor of the ocean. The bug-eyed wavy-feelered gout-creating sea-bottom bug. My lobster came disguised as chowder and seafood filling for a wrap. I finally gave in to the push push push to eat lobster bugs [...]
Tags: Arkansas, Arlington, bangers and mash, Beale Street, Bentonville, Blues City Cafe, Boise, Boston, Boston's North End, Brownwood, catfish, chili, chow chow, Civil War, fish cakes, fried chicken, grits, haddock, Idaho, lobster, Manicotti, Memphis, Mt. Pleasant, Nova Scotia, seafood chowder, Shiloh, Tennessee, Texas, tortillas, Virginia, Williamsburg
Posted by admin on September 12, 2012 in
Books,
Travel I am sitting here in central Maine thinking about radiant hardwoods that glow like neon in the waning light of evening. Brilliant, possessive reds and oranges and yellows crowd my inner vision, but we are in Maine too early, so the only colors here are summer green and the hinted ends of the maples barely [...]
Tags: Autumn, Blue Ridge Parkway, Boston, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Chatanooga, Chickamauga, Chuck and Donna Dennis, Civil War, film, Jamestown, Khe Sanh, Lee and Betty Plevney, Maine, Marie Chalmers, Mississippi, North End, Old North Church, Ripley, Tippah County, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Washington DC, Williamsburg, Yorktown
Posted by admin on August 20, 2012 in
Musings,
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 August 18, 2012 in
Birds,
Travel A couple of days ago Betty and I motored north out of east Texas up US Highway 259 into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, towards the small town of Idabel. I can recall my oldest living aunt, who would have been born around 1903, talking about that town when I was a kid. I have no recollection [...]
Tags: Arizona, Arkansas, Banta, creative writer, Dante, Egrets, filmmaker, Idabel, internet, McCurtain County, Mount Pleasant, murder, Oklahoma, rake, Red River, Red Slough, Rodgers, Sibley, swather, Texas, tractor, Tyler, wood storks
Posted by admin on August 17, 2012 in
Travel Complaints about my shortcomings make me cringe. As a blogger I live in fear of having my readers complain about my writing, the subject matter, the style, the focus I bring to the piece. I live in fear of hearing complaints that I write too many blog entries. But today’s flattering complaint arose because I [...]
Tags: Amarillo, Arkansas, Bentonville, Bravo!, Brownwood, Capitol Reef, Colorado, Colorado River, Cortez, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Dallas, Gregg Jones, Honor in the Dust, Howard Payne University, Mac McNeely, Oklahoma, Pea Ridge, Roger and Mary Engle, Texas, Vietnam Veterans of America
