Hello Readers, Carol and I visited the Outer Banks of North Carolina in September 2026. As many of you know, the Outer Banks is a string of sand dune islands off the coast of North Carolina. Corolla, pronounced kuh-RAHL-uh, is the northernmost town on the Outer Banks. The pavement ends in Corolla… …then “the road” […]
Read more "An Afternoon with the Horses of Corolla Beach"Hello Readers, For a while I have had the idea of taking photos of the Moon throughout a calendar month. I chose May 2026 because it was a bookend month beginning and ending with full Moons. Every image was captured within 100 meters of my house. From the couple hundred photos, I chose ten for […]
Read more "The Moons of May"The RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912. Here is a look at a museum experience about the ship and about a graveyard for victims.
Read more "R.M.S. Titanic: An Exhibition and a Cemetery"On July 29, 2025 I visited Buffalo Point on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. The hike is a 2.0-kilometer (1.25-mile) moderate ascent. White Rock Bay as Seen from Buffalo Point Smoke from a wildfire along Arizona’s Grand Canyon dulled the scene. The edge of the clouds mark the tailend of a […]
Read more "Questing for Wonder on Antelope Island"On December 18, 2024, I visited the Great Salt Lake. This time I loitered on the seven-mile (eleven-kilometer) causeway that connects Antelope Island to the mainland. Here is what I saw: Sky over the Great Salt Lake’s Farmington Bay Looking south from the Antelope Island causeway at noon at the winter solstice. Look how […]
Read more "Miscellaneous Views from the Antelope Island Causeway"On November 5, 2024, I was preparing dinner with short breaks to stare out the window. Suddenly the light changed dramatically. A snow squall was moving in from the Great Salt Lake. I grabbed my camera and hurried to the front yard. In the five minutes between 3:57 and 4:02, I captured twenty images. Here […]
Read more "An Afternoon Snow Squall"Lady Finger Point is a spit on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Carol and I picnicked there on August 14, 2024. The day was hot and the Sun was bright. Smoke from wildfires around the western United States varied depending on the direction one looked. Here are some scenes from our outing: […]
Read more "Lady Finger Point"The Big Boy is the most elegant steam locomotive ever built. In 1941 the Union Pacific Railroad commissioned these engines to meet new demand for cross-country freight service as the Great Depression receded. The Ogden, Utah railyards, the largest between Chicago and Oakland, were pressured by a geographical fact: The rail line eastbound from Ogden […]
Read more "The Big Boy Steam Locomotive"Nevada State Route 233 extends 35 miles (56 kilometers). Oasis, a remote exit from Interstate 80, marks the south end of SR-233, and the the Utah border marks the north end. The highway bisects the Goshute Valley and the Tecoma Valley. Both valleys are features of the Great Basin Desert in Elko County, Nevada. On […]
Read more "Desertscapes in the Great Basin"My spouse and I were privileged to observe the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. The story began three days earlier: In the above photo the Moon has barely risen above the crest of the Wasatch Mountains in Millcreek, Utah. Mt. Olympus, far right and Triangle Peak, center. As I experienced this moonrise, I […]
Read more "Clouds Eclipsed a Solar Eclipse: It Was Wonderful"