The events described here actually took place on July 17th. Today was the first day my dad and I were on our own. Debi is in Castle Rock fo...

The events described here actually took place on July 15th. Today we started from Silverton, headed for Animus Forks, but just short of Anim...

The events described here actually occurred on July 14th. The Alpine Loop is probably the most famous four-wheel drive trip in the San Juan ...

This is posted late; the events described actually took place on July 13th. We met our friends John and Grayle Blecker at their campsite thi...

We've been so busy out having fun that I haven't had time in the evenings to post for the past couple days. I should be able to cat...

This is a delayed posting — the described events actually took place yesterday (Tuesday, July 12). The day was simply magnificent. Our rout...

The two scenes at right are from about 12,000 feet (4,000 meters) altitude, high in the San Juan Mountains. You're seeing the peaks ove...

Well, it was a long, hard slog (driving), but we made it into Ouray, Colorado by about 4 pm. We left Cedar City at 4 am, so that made it a ...

We left home this morning at 4:30 am and cruised into Cedar City, Utah this afternoon 2:45 pm — 516 miles in 9 hours and 15 minutes (there...

A few days ago, I responded to a request (I've forgotten exactly where it came from) to contact soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with an...

From now until around July 25, my blogging will be (a) light, and (b) focused on different topics than usual. This is because I will be on ...

Insurgency in Iraq might be a relatively sophisticated operation, but some of the participants are certainly a few fuses short of a working ...

"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, t...

Tonight I decided to track down the legend of the "flying saucer" lady of Lawson Valley. Debbie and I once saw a car with a model...

APOD brings us... Typically, views from Mauna Kea are up and dark. That's because the famous dormant volcano in Hawaii is arguably Eart...

Late last night, at 10:52 PM PST, NASA's "Deep Impact" mission was completed in a spectacularly successful fashion. I stayed ...

Well, it's only taken me six months to get the information from my WeatherHawk weather station (photo at right; click for a larger view)...

California Thrashers ( toxostoma redivivum ) are very common here, and yet they're a bit of a challenge to photograph. The problem is t...

This breeding male Hooded Oriole ( icterus cucullatus ) was taking a break from his feeding in our Liquid Amber tree, sitting in a baby alep...

This is a Spotted Towhee ( pipilo maculatus ) scratching for cracked corn in our back yard. I believe it's a juvenile — it looks very m...