Lady Rizo - If I Was Your Woman

Things I have seen #2

The Tower of London and Tower Bridge                         

Things I miss in Indianapolis

Reforesting update

Here are the latest additions to our reforestation project.  These
 native Hawaiian Palapalai ferns(center) are used  to make lei for Hula dancers.

Peaks of Otter Lodge

41 years ago Sharon and I were married at this wonderful place in Virginia

Postcards #1

Lets start a new series. This time it is cut out postcards from the book
Hawaii The Big Island : Land of Fire and Ice photographs by Franco Salmoiraghi
# 1 Eruption of Pu'u O' o (1983)

Beautiful Downtown Hilo

Things I have seen # 1

Number one in my new series of " Things I have seen " The Vatican.

Some of the pleasant memories that remain after many trips to Britain
are that of Pub visits. Although it has been a few years since my last trip
I have recently come up with a way to simulate that experience
For a number of years I have been a member of CAMRA . This is a
consumer group (100,000 strong) that is in essence a watch dog
that tries to maintain the integrity of the brewing business and the
institution of the British Pub(Public House) Of the many activities of the group
one is to publish the Good Beer Guide with descriptions of thousands of Pubs
In the Country.
Over the past few months I have discovered that sitting down and reading the
descriptions while having a beer is a substitute for not being there in person.
It may not be perfect but It is as close as I get until I return. Cheers!

Freefall

The way it feels sometimes

Coltrane Fix for today

# 58

From Esquire magazines Feature 79 things we can all agree on .
# 58 Most people really shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a handgun.

British County/Town/ Pub name #8

Well. the reading vacation is over . Now that I have finished the most enjoyable Travels with Charley I am returning to my usual fare. This time a world History book so large I had to return to weight training so I could lift it. I don't know why I torture myself like this. Hopefully I can finish this (probably sometime next year at my speed) before I forget where It began. If not , remind later that it was it was Mesopotamia .

The joy of good writing

I went into a state of flight ,running to get away from the
unearthly landscape. And then the late afternoon changed everything. As the sun angled,the buttes and coulees,the cliffs and sculptured hills and ravines lost there burned and dreadful look and glowed
with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of coal black.

Reforestation continues

Even though I haven't mentioned it in a while our reforestation project continues. Many years of
weeding, planting ,pruning, replacing etc, etc are slowly progressing. I suppose because it is a living thing it is never really done. Here is a view of the latest segment we are working on. The area to the left is cleared and the right is not completed.

To make my reading time more complicated (making things more complicated is my strong point)
I try to keep up with these 8 magazine subscriptions. Good thing some of them are quarterly publications or I would surely fail miserably.

Book report

Coltrane required listing = Better World