My music education resurfaced in a sorority house in the 1960s during college days. While waiting for my date to descend the circular stairs in perfect splendor, I heard a beautiful piano melody precede her entrance. Upon inquiring, I learned it was none other than...
Well, OK, a little off topic, but this is a Screech Owl that found a nice perch on my entry light here in Tucson and didn’t seem to care at all if I walked underneath him (or her) all day. By night, he had departed, ostensibly to hunt, leaving a nice pellet of...
I’ve had this incense burner that I bought in some NPS bookstore years back when they sold actual native crafts made locally–and thought it would make a good template for a small chiminea. I am now in Tucson picking up the project begun last Spring. ...
I always stop by Jackson Hole now on my biannual drives both north and south from Tucson to Seattle’s here seeking the late summer storms–and I am not disappointed. For two weeks the skies rumble and an occasional lightening bolt strikes a peak. Forest...
The temperature in Tucson when I return climbs into the low 90’s. It’s time to finish off projects and head to cooler climes. The trip to San Francisco (NPS Tradeshow–previous blog) was my fifth or sixth roadtrip last winter marketing my book and...
Very conveniently located on my new back-roads route from the Ranger Doug Intergalactic Headquarters in Seattle (my warehouse) to Tucson is Hood River, Oregon. And conveniently located in that town are two good friends whom I’ve known most of my adult...
