Monday, June 2, 2014

'91 S10 with the penguin box and a homemade canoe rack: On Display.



Google Street View is a wonderful way to visit places both familiar and new.  I've traveled many lanes through Google's cameras.  Love it.  So when the iconic car passed by me I knew I would have to wait for the next update to see if the camera was rolling.  Sure as shit,, there I am in Little Red, coming and going.   



Someone who should know once told me Bill Gates drives a Blue Ford Focus.  Made my day.  The old Chevy S10, my vehicle of choice,  morphed from eyesore into exquisite social camouflage fit for a king.  I enjoy the freedom of driving an old beater. It helps me get out of self, into the picture, to feel unimportant, and know we are trivial.  That is where I am calmest.  Feel free to judge me by my cover, it only has 125k miles, will never depreciate, and I don't care if it gets scratched.  Perfect.



Trolling around trying to find myself in street view,  I came across the camera's shadow just around the corner. First one I have ever noticed,  but now that I look I can find them everywhere,, like Duh, moving  360 degree camera arrays are often taking pictures of their own shadow. Obvious in hindsight, like most truths. 

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Christmas with Friends


The day before Christmas we awoke to a big dump of snow.  On Christmas morning the sun broke out, I bundled up, and the birds came in. 

Saturday, January 5, 2013

New Balance

Turns out the Mayans were right about their world ending.

I wasn't the only one who noticed, was I?   For me the significance was too obvious to deny. On 12/22/12, the day after the Mayan calendar failed to predict the end of the world, the women of India, millions and millions of them, realized that they didn't have to be raped. The machismo and bravado of men on a joy ride, met the mothers and daughters. And they are clearly saying, “women have power and a voice here, too”. 

Was it a coincidence that the NRA broke it's silence on that day and among all the possible explanations and solutions to the murder of children in a classroom, access to stacked clips goes unmentioned, but the grand supporters of liberty suggest we need to make lists of people and have the government track them. The ignorance was deafening, and the mothers across the country said, "women have power and a voice here, too”. 

The balance of power has tipped. The voice of women got a little bit louder and a few more men starting listening respectfully to the women in their lives. There is now more female energy in this world than male. It isn't a sudden lighting of the darkness, but a shifting of the sands. This call to reason has taken centuries. The times when men could claim superiority and never admit an error are passing away. 

The Mayan blood sacrifice, the slaughter of innocence for mythology, that had to be a man's idea. As their calendar fades, so does the arrogance of men. Close your eyes and feel it. On that day the female energy of the planet nudged past the male energy in both size and stature. I embrace a future were the steady determined voices of great women are there to help guide us all.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Multiplumiform Wings


When I stopped Dr. Turner to ask him about this beauty, I started by saying, "it looked like a moth but it had wings,," I looked at my hand and spread out my fingers and he gave me Genus and species. She is a specialist on Synphocarpus alba, snow berry, a common native shrub. Never seen a wing like that and I've lived around snow berries for the last couple of decades. Keeping my eyes open, now.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Contrast

HAD to share this! A picture from Dad's trip up the Amazon. He called as he approached the equator and was counting down the minutes of a degree as he approached zero. He's heading south into summer, now. Finally snowing in ernest here.

Monday, December 26, 2011

Star and Stripes



With the help of my lovely bride and a lot of rope, the old star has been hoisted over its third home and is lighting another night.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Two Seasons Missed

Plumiform frost always catches my attention.


This at first light was so stunning I needed to share. Appears it has been two seasons since I've had the time to share. It isn't for lack of beautiful days; mostly just working hard, playing hard. Summer and fall were wonderful.



Our first outing to the mountains last weekend was blessed with sun, beautiful snow, and great skiing. The atmosphere was in a mighty inversion, valleys were cold and the mountain tops were warm. But the full moon I was expecting to light the drive, wasn't full. It had been full at sunset, then was half-full the next morning when we were loading into the car. The eclipse of the moon continued to totality as we drove across frosted N. Idaho. The small valleys with streams were dense with ground-fog illuminated from above by the warm orange light of the darkened moon, until the sun rose on a new season.