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My Bird Collection
Here I will collect my bird photos...
Idaho
Selway River Pt 2
Human culture and isolation
GF500 f5.6
Selway River
Wilderness culture
poetry
An Acquaintance is Gone
Got a call today and he is gone I didn’t know him well but liked him A year younger than me We spoke on the phone two days ago And he is gone As suddenly as when I met him Like a bolt on a clear blue day Whoever
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Mounting a Camera in my Truck
Warning this is technical post... Hopefully some will find it helpful.
Essay
This Land is My Land
A re-post from Notes from North Idaho
GF500 f5.6
On The Lake
Summer camping on Lake Pend d’Oreille
Swallows
Swallows
In the Hopi creation myth a swallow was created out of clay by the medicine men as the first messenger or emissary sent from the third world to look above the sky for a better world to live in. The third world, where they lived, had become corrupt because the
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Mesa Verde
Richard Whetherill tends to get the credit for ‘discovering’ in the European settler sense, Mesa Verde. It was of course known by the native Ute Indians in the area who considered the cliff dwellings sacred. There is another person who perhaps should have the title the Wetherills have assumed and
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Of Mountain Wildflowers
The best times to travel the West are in the late spring/early summer. Late April to mid-June I would say. Too early and the passes may still hold snow and not be open. Too late and the freshness of spring and the wildflowers will have dried up. Because the
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Sego Canyon
There can be something bewitching about pictographs or rock art. They exist all over the West. Some are more recent bordering on the historical while others reach back 10,000 years or more. The older ones are the most beguiling, at least to me. They all have this invitation to
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Night Heart
The heart that beats at night is blind It sees not out through open conscious eyes It sees the fragments the mind creates in its dreamings The madness, the fears, the pain, sorrow, joy, and happiness It beats to the sense of flying It flutters at the sensation of falling