High Desert Museum

Didn’t expect to find my childhood home in a museum!

Pyramid and Ball Lakes

I had just been complicit in a six-hour hike with no food in the mountains with an eighty-year-old man.

Garden of One Thousand Buddhas

A meditation master and scholar of Tibetan Buddhism had a childhood dream about a peace garden in the mountains.

Missoula

We found some pretty cool stuff to do, even during a pandemic.

Breathing smoke for a week

Wildfires are raging across my state of Oregon, as I’m sure you’ve heard in the news. People have died, homes burned to the ground, and thousands of people evacuated. Friends of mine have been ordered to evacuate their homes, and more have just left to try to find clear air to breathe. California is getting […]

Bannack ghost town

Bannack was the first capital city of the Montana Territory. In general, the town was famous for its lawlessness.

Big Hole National Battlefield

A ceremony was underway because it was exactly 143 years since military scouts spied on a Nez Perce camp and prepared to slaughter them.

New Brother

A year ago I got a new brother who was 41 years old.

St. Helens foothills

Forty years later it’s amazing both that there is so much life here, and that I can still see the devastating effects of the volcanic eruption.

Squirrel

No message today, just a squirrel. I loved all these poses the squirrel made for me. I think it was looking right at me through the window of my office, and I can only guess what was in that little fuzzy noggin. What a cutie pie.