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Pingora

The prominent peak near the center of the photo is named Pingora, which is a Shoshone word meaning “inaccessible.” Indeed, it takes a two-day trip that includes driving over rutted roads and then hiking eight miles over an 11,000 foot pass just to get there. It was first climbed in 1940, and is such aContinue reading “Pingora”

Pingora

Takedown

I was startled to find our flag on the ground last evening, entangled in a fallen branch. Review of video revealed that It took less than a second for a falling branch to knock down our flag as shown in the sequence above. Fortunately no one was under it when it fell, but a deliveryContinue reading “Takedown”

Personal Perseid Meteor Shower

The morning of August 12, 2026, fire flashed across the sky in the form of meteors as Earth encountered the orbital debris of comet Swift-Tuttle, as it does every year about this time. While up to 60 meteors per hour can be seen in clear, dark skies, I only saw seven due to a limitedContinue reading “Personal Perseid Meteor Shower”

Morning Glow

Clouds radiated a fiery-orange glow as the morning dawned, a spectacular show that seemed to amaze even the thin, crescent moon. Can you find it? #sunrise #fieryorange #crescentmoon

A Fine, Peasant Pleasure

No, it wasn’t the Little Red Hen, but rather, a resourceful Fairy that produced these loaves. While we could just buy bread, nothing matches the aroma, feel, and taste of warm, freshly-baked bread; it’s part of our heritage. We both grew up on midwestern farms, and what we lacked in dollars, we made up forContinue reading “A Fine, Peasant Pleasure”

“HI”

Spray painted symbols and letters have appeared throughout the neighborhood ahead of the installation of the new fiberoptic cables. My favorite is this “HI” on a sidewalk that we travel most days of the week. While it has something to do with the installation of new infrastructure, I prefer to think it as a cheeryContinue reading ““HI””

Spider Sky

The morning crescent moon grinned down from the sky while a banana spider seemed suspended overhead in its invisible web, and we hoped it would not pounce upon us as we passed under. Of course, it is supposed to be more afraid of us than we are of it, but that was of little comfortContinue reading “Spider Sky”

Dropout

I had been tinkering in the front yard yesterday about an hour before this branch dropped out of the tree. I’m glad it waited. #dropout #treebranch #fallen

Beam Me Anywhere, Scotty

White pickups from Texas and young men in work clothes have appeared in our neighborhood, painting symbols on the pavement, orange streaks across all the lawns, and hurling bright, orange flags into the ground with great precision. Before long, there will be “excavation” for fiber-optic cables that we will soon be using for internet accessContinue reading “Beam Me Anywhere, Scotty”