The view from here last night of the partial lunar eclipse was beautiful. My photographs of same, not so beautiful! The web of life is always much better, of course,…
I’ve long appreciated how complex life is. One has only to consider the Monarch butterfly’s life—not just complex but impossibly so. Scientists have unravelled nearly all of that story but…
I’ve not watched TV news for years but even my daily reading of several newspapers make it clear the world continues to overflow with self-destructive turmoil, leaving many with lives…
There are not enough pieces left to assemble anything useful, anything that resembles a memory. What is there is just enough to see myself long ago with dirty tears running…
When on Kodiak Island several years ago with my dear friend and fellow photographer, we enjoyed some wilderness kayaking along the coast. That enjoyment quickly turned to desperation when we…
There are more and more things I don’t remember well as I grow older. The internet can be a great tool to help fill in the gaps but only when…
It is HOT this week in much of the world, even across much of the United States and, yes, even in the Green Mountains where winter cross-country skiing is just…
Diversity is a word that has been hijacked, especially with regard to our fellow human beings, and, worse, made to seem dirty—”if you are different from me, you are bad,…
The capital city of Vermont, Montpelier, or as it is sometimes affectionally called “Montpeculiar,” celebrates Independence Day on July 3rd so we don’t compete with the many other nearby towns…
My brother and I used to play a game when we were supposed to be going to sleep. One of us would suddenly shout “I have dibs on everything in…
Still Learning To See 