From the Mountains above the Applegate River

     A few days ago I got an invitation from my son: How would I like to join him and a small group of friends for a two-night back-packing ...

 In the midst of my spring housecleaning last week (okay, I'm a little late), I came across a long shelf of journals. I didn't glanc...

    Although the Cleaning Crew is coming in a few days to do a "deep cleaning" at my house, I have taken on the task of taking eve...

    The mountain view from the Dutchman Peak fire lookout above the Applegate watershed of the Siskiyou Crest stretches three hundred and si...

    It has been beastly hot. Over 100º in town , I heard. It's not as hot here on the mountain, by maybe ten degrees, but that leaves a ...

     At the end of March my brother was riding his bicycle down a winding mountain road in Virginia, near his home, when his front wheel vee...

    After being lost among the large trees and ferns of Vashon Island at the end of May (see blog post on June 3) and among the thickly-leav...