Oregon Spring

I've been taking loads of pictures lately, just no time to post. Here's a selection the last week or so. Some of the dates are wrong, typos, ya know. But just in case spring is late in your part of the world, enjoy these pictures. Not much else going on. Still working with CreateSpace to …

News and Changes

So, things are progressing with the book. The proof copy is on its way to me, and if all looks good the paper copy should be available on Amazon in another week! The ebook of Revenants Abroad is also now available via Kindle on Amazon, and will remain available via Smashwords, Kobo and Barnes and …

Pictures of Spring

Interesting cloud bank to the west, and strangely colored clouds.   I've been meaning to get a picture of this street for years. The ornamental cherry trees are stunning. When the petals fall the street looks like it's covered in pink snow.   UPDATE: I have just found out when the petals blow off the …

The Bluest Sky

(with apologies to Toni Morrison)     Winter here is like the long dark of Moria, and we don't have Gandalf to lead us through it. Seeing sun and blue sky after all the rains lately is cause for celebration. Have courage, wherever you are. The sun is still there, I've seen it! A Prayer …

Welcome Spring

Click on the pic for a little card. Some of you folks have had a brutal winter, and you may be feeling like Mother Nature let the clock wind down in your neck of the woods, coming to a dead stop in the middle of winter. But fear not! The wheel of the year continues …

Amazing Spring

Why are we always so amazed when bulbs start to grow, and trees start to bud in the spring? Do we always doubt that spring is really coming? Do we think spring has something better to do than arrive? And yet every year I find myself marveling like a child when I notice the trees …

Post-Recon Decompress

After I drove out to the interview site yesterday to scope it out (the place is huge, what a jumble of buildings) I stopped off at my favorite park on the way home and took some pictures. Lots of baby ducks and geese, water irises were blooming (although slightly past peak, it looked like) the …

Spring!

TO SPRING by: William Blake (1757-1827) THOU with dewy locks, who lookest down Through the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell one another, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turn'd Up to …