2023-07-22 20:20
Over on the Emerald Isle I spent more time inside places of worship in eleven days than I have since I was an adolescent. As a general rule I try to act as if Santa Claus is watching, though… Read More
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2018-10-16 00:58
The rock shop owner rushed in through the door thirty seconds after I did. He wore a hooded sweatshirt and a baseball cap, if I remember right, and glasses. I don’t think he’s us… Read More
2018-10-16 00:50
My detour from the interstate paid off, though for a while I doubted I’d track down the obscure treasure I hoped to find. Even if I hadn’t, the way the old Lincoln Highway glimme… Read More
2018-10-16 00:48
After four or five days of rain, the weather cleared up, but now I’m on my return trip, for much of the day cooped up in a metal cage going 75 mph. Yesterday morning the leaves in the… Read More
2018-10-16 00:40
The Devonian Period fell in the middle of the Paleozoic era, between about 420 million and 360 million years ago, when the amount of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere was 75 percent of what… Read More
2018-10-16 00:38
I filled three sheets of paper from a hotel notepad writing down the route numbers I needed to wind my way to northeast Nebraska. I thought it would be easier than squinting at screen grabs… Read More
2018-10-16 00:34
It was raining when I got up this morning at a mountain lodge, cheaper off season in an overdeveloped ski town in northern Colorado. I drove on slick mountain roads through a forest explodin… Read More
2018-10-16 00:33
I’ve turned my corduroys inside out so I won’t get red clay on the rest of my clothes in the suitcase. I’ll let the mud dry on my shoes and slough off on its own. The &ldqu&hell…Read More
2018-10-16 00:11
“There’s no snow on the Sierras.” That was the first thing I thought when I left South Lake Tahoe this morning. I noticed the gray granite mountaintops on the horizon, but… Read More
2018-10-16 00:06
I drove away from the far right glaring, garish edge of Nevada at 9:24 a.m. with a large coffee from McDonald’s. Google said my next destination was four hours away, but I’d mapp… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In the left-hand pocket of Orange County's 5 and 55 freeways, a small, urban park conceals beneath rain-forest flora the Santa Ana Zoo, a blighted gem of cages and artificial rock, as dusty… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Join me on a leisurely climb into the watershed ecosystem of Mokelumne Wilderness, high in the Stanislaus National Forest. We travel northward and upward from 7,000 to 9,000 feet above sea l… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Thousand Palms, California.A protected natural refuge in the burgeoning urban desertfeatures Washingtonia filifera, otherwise known as theCalifornia fan palm.Along the edges of the San Andre… Read More
2006-08-21 18:55
poor America,its iconic landscape skin-damaged, scaly, it leans sidewayson its wobbly legs and collapses, heaving, a sigh of greenhouse gasses,huddled masses,on its own, and in its ownway tr… Read More
2006-07-26 06:10
The weather is the same there as everywhere else, lately, and the lawns have sinned against suburbia by turning yellow. The flowers in the garden struggle despite the hose, and even hornets… Read More
2005-10-31 19:52
On Friday's bicycle ride home, two gray, skinny coyotes stood beside each other, twins drawn out from the pack, and watched me from within a bushy outlet leading to, of course, a gated elect… Read More
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