This year’s California super bloom of wildflowers is like nothing I have ever seen before. While I have been making posts on Facebook and Instagram, I know that some of my followers practice life without social media. (What a concept!) I would like to share for the record a more permanent record of this extraordinary […]
The Art of Firewood in Saline Valley
Back “in the day” an evening community campfire was a nightly social event at the Lower Warm Springs of Saline Valley. In the 1970’s there was a relatively small core community who often used the communal firepit to cook supper collectively. At the side of the fire ring was a customized truck tire rim. Two […]
Saline Valley Chronicles: A week that was
Many of my stories in the Saline Valley Chronicles have been about days gone by. Recollections of good times passed and past. Some things never change (for better or worse) and my most recent trip into the Valley brought that truth home. Desert dwellers tend to be hoarders. In a corner of the Mojave as […]
Along the Haines Highway | Kluane Colors
Join me for a virtual tour up the Haines Highway through the Yukon to enjoy the colors of the high country. I sit here today enjoying a continual string of what a photographer might call an “18% gray day.” There is little to look at outside. A relatively monochromatic dreary and drippy environ that typifies […]