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"It is a beautiful book with gorgeous color pictures. Text boxes detailing a particular subject such as rhododendrons or Daniel Boone are sprinkled throughout. But why did they have to use black text on a dark purple background for these boxes? They are so difficult to read. Except for that shortcoming, this book is meant to be used, not to be left on the bookshelf. I take my copy wherever I think I am going to be on the Parkway. As for the answers to the questions above? Check pages 120, 129 and 108, respectively." I couldn't agree more...  |
My morning email brought me this from the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation… January 30And then there crept a little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. – John Keats Today I was walking with some friends in Armstrong Redwoods Park and I was astonished at those trees. The more I looked [...] I drug myself out of bed early yesterday and drove into downtown Houston to the U of H Downtown for a seminar on Digital Travel Photography presented by National Geographic Traveler. It was this paragraph in the email solicitation that pulled me in: Leon Hale has a story from his childhood that tells it like it was in rural Texas. It starts like this… When the family gets together we sometimes retell the story of Uncle Billy Crockett’s camera and the famous pictures he took. The story has been retold so often that Uncle Billy himself might not [...] I see from my email forecast that we can expect a second day of sunshine before we go back to trying to live up to Seattle’s weather rep. It has rained (or so it seems from this side of memory) for the majority of the days in January. I guess we are making up for [...] |
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