So, an innocent conversation with friends last year, about the possibility of having raised garden beds and whether or not they could place one on the side of a hill, turned into a woodworking project that has continued this year. It all started with manufacturing the sides and ends by cutting and combining boards to get walls that were 12" deep. Then some pilot holes, support for the corners, and Continue Reading...
2017 Quality Raised Garden Beds
So, an innocent conversation with friends, about the possibility of having raised garden beds and whether they could place one on the side of a hill, turned into my latest woodworking project. It all started with manufacturing the sides and ends by cutting and combining boards to get walls that were 12.5" deep. Then some pilot holes, plastic lining (last year's backyard ice rink), some weed block, Continue Reading...
Don't Let It Go
Holding the light. Never gets old. Continue Reading...
Sunset in the Land of Lincoln
Ice in the air
A couple of days ago, I went in search of nearby winter weather. I found ice. Everywhere. Continue Reading...
Passing Through
Sometimes I travel just to pass through an area, but many times I travel to a spot just to let it pass through me. Continue Reading...
Where Words Take Me
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. - John Muir quoted by Samuel Hall Young in Alaska Days with John Muir (1915) chapter 7 "God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild." ~ John Muir John Muir is on my list of people I would like to have Continue Reading...
Going Home?
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity” ― John Muir, Our National Parks Continue Reading...
Too Much Here For One To See
I look to the sky and the blazing sunFeeling like I’ve arrived, the only one This place before me feels like home?Should I never leave here, no longer roam? God must have painted here, these very tonesMan has not touched this place nary a stone Sitting, I gaze upon this beautiful placeContent, I wish to stay, leave the race How is it that a site can affect me so?I couldn't retreat now if I wanted Continue Reading...
Wildlife moment
I didn't get any of this on camera as my camera was outside in my vehicle, but we had a wildlife moment out back this morning. It started with my son spotting an animal at the edge of the yard. He came to me to verify its identity. It was a bobcat. So, the two of us watched the bobcat for a minute or two as it sat quietly, interested in something we couldn't see in the distance. Then, just like Continue Reading...