Fareed Zakaria GPS, featuring Nathan Myhrvold. It’s worth watching, and worth reading the transcript of the segment of the interview not featured in the video.
Category Archives: Nature
This is all I can summon.
"Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." - Thomas Wolfe
Just down the road.
A pleasant old dirt road that drops 1400 feet in elevation in just under a half a mile.
uNThoreauLiKe
I went to the hills because I had no choice but to live fortuitously, to usurp the essential facts of life, and see if I could not unlearn all that I had been taught . . .
Old Tree
He taught me the bottle gives birth to the cup
And you won't get hurt if you just
Keep your hands up
And stand tall
Like sycamores
Summer before last…
…the final two Ward Boys died, Roscoe and Lyman. Survived Delbert by a good 9 years. Munnsville, New York is near 50 miles from here, right next door, a world away for some.
The autumn sky.
This picture was taken on my back on the kids trampoline in the back yard on the last warm day until April.
Keeping Time.
Sometime within the last couple of days I flipped 100,000 visits (and over 150,000 page views) on the old sitemeter. In thanks to all the people who take time out of their day to visit I’m “giving away” a free desktop wallpaper calendar each month … Read More →