Continue Reading Scrimshaw “Human beings have always been on this path to extract what we can from the environment around us for financial gain, oftentimes…
Continue Reading Getting rid of the Junk. I did not publish a blog on Monday because I spent my entire Sunday on the phone and on text messages, processing…
Continue Reading The Wings within. Walk with me. Midmorning in the wetlands before the heat rises once again. Yellow meadows, blue skies, make me think suddenly of…
Continue Reading Tree People Photographers Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo at the World Forestry Center. I have to admit, it’s been ages since I visited the World Forestry Center. No more explaining to my (now grown) kids…
Continue Reading Deep Breath Too hot to use what’s left of my brain, still in shock over the developments of the last days. I said to…
Continue Reading Views from the Balcony RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD Selasphorus rufus Dear Albuquerque Garden Center, Last month I purchased a hummingbird feeder for $19.95. It was just like the original Lawrence J. Webster designed…
Continue Reading Stick-People against Nazis. I found today’s title photo years and years ago on the net. The little old lady’s tagging says: “Nazis are garbage. Believe…
Continue Reading You up there – We down here. A German author and an investigative journalist teamed up in 1973 to publish their experiences after prolonged interactions with the very rich…
Continue Reading Between Two Worlds. Leonora Carrington and David Seymour (Chim) at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Update: Due to copyright issues to be resolved, I will remove the photographs I had taken of Carrington’s work at OJMCHE or…
Continue Reading Late June (Dis)Pleasures. Walk with me. A sedate stroll on Sauvie Island, easing us into a week where I will be working on a longer…
