Posted by admin on June 22, 2012 in
Musings,
Photography,
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 October 21, 2011 in
Musings
I am a desert rat and have since childhood mouthed dialogue about the beauty of the mountains vis à vis the desert. The mountains generally have no sand and wind that drives the sand and pits the paint job on your new Mercedes Benz, no short-legged plants, no spiny cacti, but trooping phalanxes of spruce [...]
Tags: Arizona, aspen, Autumn, bitterbrush, Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, cacti, cattle ranches, color, Galena Summit, ice, Idaho, Leaf peepers, maple, mesquite, New Mexico, palo verde, pronghorn, rain, Sacramento Mountains, sage, Sawtooth Mountains, sheep ranches, snow, Sonoran Desert, Stanley, Stephen King, Sun Valley, The New Yorker Magazine, winter, winterfat, Wood River Valley