If You're Going My Way, I'll Walk With You

  I found this rock shelter/cave site on one of my rambles.  The Lascaux caves it's not, but, still, it's pretty cool.  Whatever the...

I've heard it said that politics spoils the character, and I used to believe it, but now I'm not at all sure.  Based on reading th...

  W hen I was working on my doctorate, I used to play the song posted below over and over again. Sometimes tears came into my eyes.  Why?  I...

  We raise buffalo (okay, bison) as well as cattle so there is a constant concern about brucellosis.  We have inoculated the buffalo and cat...

The midsummer sun, high in the north, shines warmth onto lake and forest from the early morning to the last gleams of its setting.  It's...

Tonight's Skype conversation -- El Jefe:   "You know, sometimes you make me smile so much I can't stop. Me: Oh? El Jefe:   I r...

 I mentioned the USS Growler (SS-215) in an earlier post, remarking that I had a relative who served aboard her and perished when she was s...

I'm reading After London, or Wild England by Richard Jeffries.  Published in 1885, it is one of the first post-apocalyptic novels.  Som...

      I found this cartoon booklet among the boxes of family memorabilia (okay, junk) I've been rooting through. It apparently belonged ...

 I went hiking up into the high country where the snow still lingers and came across this wreck.  I found the identification plate or whatev...

                  “ A real cowboy's hat The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.” ...