Posted by admin on April 6, 2012 in
Dust Storms,
Musings The wind blows in Idaho this time of year. Totes the angry vestiges of another aging winter. Grass leans, limbs break, birds balance in the tops of aspen branches that tilt away from the gales that holler off the east Oregon desert. Time moves east to west around here, the wind sweeps west to east [...]
Tags: Alamogordo, Apache, Arizona, Avignon, Black Range, Cloudcroft, Gila, hurricanes, Idaho, New Mexico, Palais de Papes, San Andres Mountains, Sonoran Desert, Spring, storms, typhoons, Western Bar, Western Cafe, white sands, wind
Posted by admin on March 2, 2012 in
Birds,
Musings For the last several months my wife Betty and I, along with our friend and bird watcher extraordinaire Leanne Lloyd-Fairey, have helped conduct a raptor watch for the Oregon, southwestern Idaho and southern Washington region. A lot of people are involved in this effort and we are a small cog in the machine that makes [...]
Tags: Arizona City, bald eagle, environmentalists, golden eagle, harriers, hunting, kestrels, Papago Indian Reservation, quail, rattlesnakes, red tail hawks, Sonoran Desert
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
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
