Cirque of the Towers

This part of the Wind River Mountains has fascinated me for years, but I only have ever seen it by air. The cirque is the bowl-shaped circle of peaks in the center of the photo taken a couple of days ago from an airliner. In the 1980’s I flew geologist, Charlie Love over it severalContinue reading “Cirque of the Towers”

Bamboozled

The queue to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction wound back and forth past exotic decorations to set the imagination astir. However, in one corner, a growth of actual bamboo plants added a feeling of the tropics to the set. The ride itself blended history and fantasy with living touches of reality, that made theContinue reading “Bamboozled”

The Hair of a Queen

I had often admired the wispy, stellar site of Coma Berenices, “Berenice’s Hair,” sparking softly in the clear, dark, winter Nebraska skies of my youth. It is hard to see here in Ocala due to surrounding city lights. I was delighted that it showed up as a faint sprinkling of stars clustered near the lowerContinue reading “The Hair of a Queen”

Running Errorands

The pill organizer we ordered from Amazon to replace our worn out travel case turned out to be too large, clunky, and heavy. No problem, I thought, just return it through the UPS Store as we had in the past when necessary. The Amazon website for returns threw me for a loop, however, when itContinue reading “Running Errorands”