In a very real sense, absolutely!
Today is my “actual” birthday (from AstroDienst), with the sun lining up precisely with where it was when I was born in 1945 (!) at 9:25 p.m. tonight, rather than tomorrow, my calendar birthday. This has to do with the imprecision of the numbers, things slipping, the impossibility of our [...]

Probably only Leos broadcast their birthdays in advance. No, not to get presents or put on airs — Leos don’t have to — but because they feel free to do so. It’s natural. The last thing my wife would do, or would have done even many years ago, is talk up her birthday, except privately [...]

Okay, here you go, growing just outside the door, practically. I make a mean apricot pie, or better yet, turnovers. Apricots growing right out of the ground! Don’t say I never gave you nuthin.

No, these aren’t ripe yet, but we’re gonna have a ton of ‘em

Aerial image © 2008 by Eva-Marie Brekkestø

Oh, those hoaxers are busy, all right. It’s hard work, too. Just you try getting a bunch of people out to a grain field in the middle of the night and creating something like this in a few minutes, then getting away without leaving any tracks or tire [...]

Retreat, a strike, or practice?
For the last few days I’ve felt I wouldn’t mind if the Internet completely disappeared, if I never sent or received another email, never visited another Web site. I have no idea where this comes from, but it’s been very satisfying to let it flow to the ends of my extremities [...]

There’s already been a sampling of it in a previous post, but this is even better stuff at 750 pixels. Three pictures are already up, starting here, and I’ll be posting more for the rest of the week, wide shots as well as close-ups with the telephoto lens.

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My wife and I took our usual over-the-mountain [...]

Well, crank up the worry machine. (Or not! read on…)
What I find most interesting about using the Internet for finding news is how much of what the rest of the world sees never makes it into American media consciousness. For example, all but a rear guard of 800 Australian troops just came home from Iraq [...]

The previous post has a comment by someone I didn’t recognize. He lives in the Cascade foothills and writes at a blog you need to visit, The Farmer de Ville Chronicles. Outstanding writing, as usual a wake-up call to me to stick to what’s real and all around me. He must have a regular writing [...]

The sunlight streams in through a little window and the open door. I notice, but I’m not ready to rise and roll instead, pulling the down comforter up around my shoulders. The air that pours in with the sun is in the 40s, delicious on my hot, turned-over face.
My wife always gets up first [...]

Here’s an image that will no doubt show up at 750 x 499 pixels on FotoFeed next week. I took the shot on Rt. 518, just over the pass on U.S. Hill coming from Peñasco. A picture of a guy taking a picture… I know just how he feels! That’s Taos Mountain in the background, [...]