Bringing Rain to the Desert
Perhaps it was fate. During the first week of January, we left cold, rainy Seattle behind for some Las Vegas sun. The desert city had not had any rain for 116 days, and for a few more pleasant days,...
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I wanted to escape the dreary northwest winter. Though a lot can be said for sticking with the situation you’re in and making the best of it, there would still be weeks and weeks of winter when we...
View ArticleDreams in the Dust
The old Techatticup gold mine in Eldorado Canyon, Nevada is the site of an eccentric, poorly maintained collection of rundown buildings and derelict vehicles. We drove there from Las Vegas in January,...
View ArticleWHAT HAPPENED?
What happened was, we packed our bags into a little red car that came from a place called enterprise, and the little red car went south, south past Portland and down to the sea. Pretty enterprising. We...
View ArticleBEACHED
I do a fair amount of research before I travel to a new place, but never so much that the sense of discovery is quashed. In that spirit, our road trip to southwestern Oregon and neighboring...
View ArticleWhat There Is
In the spirit of working with what’s available, here is a group of photos I’ve tossed together from the road trip through Oregon and northern California that we took a few months ago. After days of...
View ArticleSO(very)CAL: L.A. and Around
Earlier this week, I returned home from a week traveling in and around Los Angeles. We put 751 miles on the rental car. Whew! Here are a few highlights from the city, the desert, the mountains and the...
View ArticleRambling Around L.A. with Flora
Who’s Flora? Flora is Fauna’s pal. You know, the one who makes everything livable. Flora’s strong presence in L.A. is a key ingredient of the city’s identity. The city is chock full of glamorous...
View ArticleA Joyful Relation to What Is
A few weeks ago Sigrun Hodne, who writes at the blog Sub Rosa, posted a brief video about the photographer Jeff Wall. You may or may not find Wall’s photography appealing, but maybe you’ll be intrigued...
View ArticleFurther Afield: Northern California
“Let’s go back,” he said, back to Ferndale. It’s a little town in northern California – more precisely, in Humboldt County, home of mammoth redwood trees, counter-culture cannabis growers, and (more...
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Road Trips: Northern California in Color and Black & White
If you take the fastest route you can reach the little town of Ferndale, California in twelve hours from our house. Happily, we had time to spare so we took a longer route, avoiding Seattle traffic by...
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FURTHER AFIELD: Venturing Out Again
After over a year of refraining from overnight travel* we made a brief foray with friends to the other side of the mountains, what I like to call The Dry Side. The western and eastern halves of...
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FARTHER AFIELD: Utah
In the fall of 2000, I journeyed to south-central Utah twice, each time for less than a week. I went to support my teenage son, who was in a wilderness program. The second visit included a cold night...
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FARTHER AFIELD: Utah Rocks!
It’s all about geology in Utah. This post zeroes in on the impressive variety of rocks that can be seen in southern Utah. Between April 3rd and 13th, we drove from the far southwest corner of Utah to...
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FARTHER AFIELD: A Dusty Lake Interlude
Last week I was part of a group of seven friends – photographers, botanists, a lichenologist, a ceramicist, a filmmaker, psychologists, and social workers (some categories apply to several people) who...
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Further Afield: In Another Land Entirely
We’ve been in Iceland for two weeks. The silence and spaciousness has percolated down into my being, rebirthing a feeling I haven’t enjoyed since childhood – a clear, distraction-free contentment that...
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FURTHER AFIELD: Around Iceland
After traveling for almost three weeks in Iceland, impressions of the land and culture swim through my head day and night. Where to start? If only you were here, you would just throw questions my way...
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