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 13, 2012 in
Movies,
Musings Our daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Baruch, are expecting their first baby in July. We have grandkids already. One, Justyce, is already zooming her way to young adulthood. The prospect for the arrival of a newborn is damned exciting. As I think about this new granddaughter, the season is Spring and outside the daffodils are [...]
Tags: Allman Bothers, Arizona, Baruch Ellsworth, Casa Grande, cast iron stove, cotton farmer, cowboys, Dire Straits, Geronimo, Idlewild South, James Rodgers, John Huston, Justyce Rodgers, Man in the Wilderness, Memory of Elizabeth Reed, movies, painter, plumber, prickly pear, Richard Harris, Richard Madewell, Rolling Stones, Sarah Ellsworth, sheep herder, Spring, Sticky Fingers
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 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
