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 August 2, 2012 in
Travel The first time I traveled through Utah was in the summer of 1962 with a busload of Junior Classical League kids from Arizona on our way to a convention in Bozeman, Montana. Back then, there was no Interstate 15 severing the heart of Utah from north to south; just US Highway 89 which snaked from [...]
Tags: Boise, Bravo! Common Men Uncommon Valor, Capitol Reef, hoodoos, Interstate 15, Kanab, Manti, Salt Lake City, Torrey, US Highway 89, Utah
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 May 25, 2012 in
Musings,
Travel Several weeks ago, Betty and I camped in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge enjoying the buoyant high desert weather and all the bounty of life that accrues to two wet years in succession. Malheur is a moniker for many things in southeastern Oregon; a county, a river, a region. Not too far from Boise, we go [...]
Tags: beaver, birds, black bear, Boise, coyotes, cranes, deer, Donner und Blitzen River, horses, jack rabbit, James Ridge, Malheur, mule deer, Oregon, predator, prey, Robert Moser, Sacramento Mountains, Spud Patch
Posted by admin on March 23, 2012 in
Movies,
Travel If your back’s against the wall, turn around and write on it. From http://www.graffquotes.com/ Like a war zone. Coming into Baltimore on Amtrak as the late October sun sneaked over the southern horizon. Barbed wire and concertina on tops of fences. Graffiti. On walls. On railroad cars moored on the spider web of tracks. Hopper [...]
Tags: Baltimore, Boise, Bomb It, Deruta, Exit Through the Gift Shop, film, graffiti, John Reiss, movies
Posted by admin on July 1, 2011 in
Musings Today I went into the local VA Medical Center to have a precancerous growth hacked off my face. Waiting for the scalpel-wielding physician’s assistant to call me in, I sat and watched a parade of veterans move back and forth down the aisles. The VA here in Boise serves a population of over ninety-four thousand [...]
Tags: Agent Orange, biker, Boise, cancer, Clara Barton, diabetes, Florence Nightingale, Korean War, Purple Heart, shrapnel, Veterans Administration, Vietnam War, Walt Whitman, WWII
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 March 25, 2011 in
Musings Last Sunday, when the equinox bumped into Boise, Idaho, the wind scattered last fall’s leaves around and around the patio. Sullen clouds in both the east and west grayed the day as the full moon reveled in its gravitational attachment to earth, or so I imagined. Betty and I ventured out and tried to capture [...]
Tags: AK-47, April, Autumn, bamboo viper, Boise, California, Canis Major, Dante, Douglas fir, ferns, fillaree, Full Moon, Idaho, Indian wheat, leech, Leo, lupine, Lynx, M-16, manna, Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, mountain blue bird, napalm, New Mexico, pink-eye weed, poppies, ravens, robins, Sacramento Mountains, six-weeks fescue, snow, Sonoran Desert, Spring, starlings, Supermoon, Vernal Equinox, Vietnam
