Time to Build.
For all of the talk of recession these days, corporations and businesses are making money, and many of them are sitting on huge piles of cash. It can’t help but conjur up images of Scrooge McDuck, swan diving into a giant swimming pool of gold. Despite all of that, unemployment is becoming a chronic plague in the USA, one felt in nearly every corner of the country. It really doesn’t need to be this way. There are huge tasks that we... Read More
Albertus Seba
A lesser known, but critically important Dutch naturalist. Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector. Born in 1665, Seba grew up near the ocean, and at a young age was captivated by the diversity of life living in the sea. Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy near the harbour. Seba asked sailors and ship surgeons to bring exotic plants and animal products he could use for preparing drugs.... Read More
Charley Harper
Artistic genius, modernist, visionary. Charley Harper (1922-2007) was a well known American artist from Cincinnati. His work is immediately captivating, exuding both a playful sense of humor and an exacting eye for form and color. In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements. When asked to describe his unique visual style, Charley responded: When I... Read More
Arches
Monoliths, fins, and arches. Those are the formations that strike you when entering Arches National Park outside Moab, Utah. Not designated a national park until 1973, the 119 square mile Arches has become synonymous with Delicate Arch, the iconic (and amazing) rock formation that graces Utah’s license plates and state publicity. Delicate Arch on the Utah license plate But a visit to this tremendous park reveals a slew of equally... Read More
The Smith River
An hour outside Redwoods National Park you’ll pass the snaking Smith River, at once wild and dramatically fresh-looking. On my few trips past this river, I noted just how clear and clean it looks from the window of the car, while driving on the windy, rocky road. To my astonishment, the river’s pristine clarity isn’t for nothing. The Smith, it seems, is the last un-dammed river in all of California. Free flowing, That’s a... Read More
Canada
Ahh, the Canucks. I love them. A clean, prosperous, beautiful country. Tease all you like, our neighbor to the north is doing just fine… Read More
2010. A year I explored outdoors.
It’s already nearly autumn? Ouch! That’s a bit scary. The summer has flown by. While prepping and building and launching my new website, I have flipped and scrolled through my past year’s photos. I was a bit surprised by how much camping, hiking and exploring I managed to squeeze in this year. And it’s not over yet. Here is a photo I’m happy with. It is Zion National Park at night. Read More