Hummocks Trail

All this beauty before me sprung out from that poor beginning.

Travels with Bone

My friend Curt over at Wandering Through Time and Place introduced me to his friend Bone, the bone, last year. He was telling Bone about my place, and when Bone talked to Curt about a visit, a plan was quickly put into action. He put on his favourite leather vest and came up to northern […]

Painting the Golden Rock

There was really no question who was getting the painting when I finished it.

A shell of its former self

My idea: knock down the wall and make one giant open room!

Manifesting something much better

As scary as change is, I am doing a good thing.

Tourists in southern Oregon

Jack London’s Room is complete with Jack London’s chamber pot.

Oregon’s Wildlife Safari

Wildlife Safari is the only drive-through animal park in the state.

Ashland Shakespeare

Margaret and I met up for a vacation a little closer to home than our two most recent trips to Chile and to Myanmar. This time, we went to southern Oregon! She drove north 5 1/2 hours from Santa Rosa and I drove south 5 1/2 hours from Rainier. We met at a hotel in […]

Colchuck Lake

Women outnumbered the men far and away.

Lake Stuart

I purchased overnight camping passes for the Lake Stuart Zone in the Enchantments area of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of Washington state. It’s due east of Seattle and north of Mt. Rainier. It takes me 4 1/2 hours just to get to the trailhead, but I can’t help myself: it is so beautiful there. I’ve […]