Category: Random

Me talkin to myself

  • Now, in addition to my blog, I have an author website. For anyone thinking about building such a beast, I honor you and I also say, if you’ve got cash to throw at it, let somebody else build it. That’s about a month of my life I will never get back. That website (the link…

  • Nature took a while to render this sculpture. It’s a fine piece of work just off the Clear Lake Trail in the Willamette National Forest a few miles before Highway 126 and Highway 22 converge right before Santiam Junction. I don’t know why trees with the spiraling grain pattern catch my attention. Like a coiled…

  • A hallowed place

    The McKenzie River in Oregon flows from snowmelt filtered through the unique volcanic aquifer of the Cascades into icy springs that feed Clear Lake. To walk the trail around that lake, to see clear water that flows out of the lake to become the river that provides Eugene with its drinking water, that’s an experience.…