Continue Reading Heimatkunde In my elementary school there were 4 grades to a classroom. Often when the teacher needed a break from the chaos he declared…
Continue Reading Water – off a duck’s back Some of my favorite duck photographs will finish off this week’s focus on water. Turns out, I am ducking out as well. Will…
Continue Reading Wells With the monster storm upon us today, let’s think about clean water….. Portland has a number of beautiful and pragmatic water features. I…
Continue Reading Fishing Holes Water, water everywhere and lots of drops to drink: drops of Vodka, that is…… after a full day’s fishing and a gourmet…
Continue Reading Too little water Remember the old Mark Twain adage “Water, taken in moderation, has never hurt anyone?” That’s no longer funny when considering how many…
Continue Reading Too much water We have seen the damage inflicted by torrents of water in the wake of hurricanes, both from above filling rivers as well as…
Continue Reading Welcome back, Rain! We’ve had the first taste of real rain yesterday. The photo above attests to it – a watery veil in front of my…
Continue Reading Passing the Word Fall is the time for birds passing through on their southward migration. If you want to see some of them all you…
Continue Reading Book Passages I can’t really name my favorite book passage of all times, mostly because they change so often. That, and because I have a pretty…
Continue Reading The Fading Light Remember Velvet Underground? Mid 1960s, Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison – Andy Warhol as the background handler? Morrison died at age…
