Recently I had to call a Lyft to get my car from the mechanic. This was my first Lyft. The driver asked me what radio station I listen ...

It would be neighborly if my car would let my thoughts exit with me especially when I plan on writing them down. Is this a Subaru thing? Tho...

I believe the osprey have arrived earlier this year. I saw one with a fish on a pole at the corner of Brookside Lane and highway 55 in Boise...

Many years ago and for decades - half of the sixties, all of the seventies, eighties and nineties, I was headache free. Everyday I reveled i...

The goat head sprayers came April 13 to spray pre-emergent. I say the first Western kingbird of the season yesterday, April 21. Swainson...

I've been wanting to note the arrival of certain birds and when our fruit trees bloom etc. But I am terrible at it. I saw an Osprey wi...

It's been snowing in Boise. It's been cold too - snow and cold go hand in hand, but it can snow at 36 degrees. We have experienced l...

I still remember where I was when I found out Trump was elected President. Our dog, Ace, was pacing in the kitchen trying to tell someone he...

Started irrigating on May 11. Sprayed pre-emergent on March 25.

I bought this "direct positive" photo paper. I was trying it out yesterday. It's a fun way to make original prints. It...

Every once in a while I remember this blog. Right now I am remembering it from the tenth storey of a hotel (Tryp Hotel) in Sao Paulo. I am h...

is 90% perspiration. That's not right. Perspiration is the product of inspiration. Closer. Today I was inspired to clean the chicken coo...

I think of my self, or is it, myself? Either way, my impression of me is that of an honest man. Yet here is a lie I tell regularly:  ...

The first summer after Luke's first year of grad school at the Art Institute of Chicago and the last summer before my first year of gra...

Maybe I should just print this blog out. Does anyone read Blogger blogs anymore? Don't bother answering. I'm not really interested. ...

I've been car shopping. Shopping in general is not fun and shopping for cars is worse. The person who tries to sell you a car really wan...

In 1991, 92, and 93 I spent many hours in the darkroom at Humboldt State University. My friends and I listened to mix tapes that we made for...

Echo Lake (top ten places) The Notorious BIG (top ten rappers) The Wizard of Oz (top ten movies that should not be re-made but The Wiz is...