To meet the wizard.
Picking up last minute camping food from Idylwilde and admiring the night sky. View image
Jim, of Katahdin Air, the man who flies what Chris refers to as Fred Flintstone’s plane, called me yesterday to ask, “Do you realize fishing season ends the 30th, the day you guys are going into Rainbow Lake?†It seems as soon as we cross the state line, The Maine Mantra Question we get asked […]
Peter standing outside Coffee Talk in Wailea, Oahu. He’s balancing his laptop, and his computer connected camera while talking to me on his cellphone. Yes, he could have been talking directly into his laptop, but he thought that might look too strange. Unsuspecting patrons inside the coffee shop. My new goal is to have rakkity […]
On important things, Jim and Susan were almost always on the same page and when not could usually get there without contention. However, they did argue about stuff that didn’t count much. Those fights were almost always funny. In one of our phone conversations after Jim died, Susan told me tearfully that she didn’t know […]
I’ve posted this Spoon’s Pond (near rakkity’s place in NH)sequence before, but this time I’ve animated it. Matt and Robby, typically potential energy to Joe’s kinetic, are all lounging on a floating dock, less than half a football field from the land based dock on which Adam and I stand. The most natural thing to […]
Hi Mike, Just to disabuse you of the idea that I haven’t been working on the latest mountain E-pic…. A tale of OS woes I’ve been trying to get all of my recent mountain pictures onto my Mac mini with limited success. Previouly I had found that a direct camera-to-mini transfer wasn’t working, and I […]
Peter Rodd and Patti The Big Picture
Peter Rodd and Patti The Big Picture
Eulogy to My Mother Bertha Downing, 11/1/1919 ‚ 9/7/2005 Presented at the Mass at Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 9/10/05 Its pretty hard to summarize the life of a person, especially when father Ignacio said I only had 45 minutes‚ just kidding‚ he said I had five minutes. So I will cut to the chase. […]
Eulogy to My Mother Bertha Downing, 11/1/1919 ‚ 9/7/2005 Presented at the Mass at Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church, 9/10/05 Its pretty hard to summarize the life of a person, especially when father Ignacio said I only had 45 minutes‚ just kidding‚ he said I had five minutes. So I will cut to the chase. […]