Bernice's Hand

All Cold-blooded animals

"All cold-blooded animals spend an unexpectedly large proportion of their time doing nothing at all, or at any rate, nothing in particular."

(Charles Elton via Jerry Baird)

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Jerry's hand

The fact is

The fact is that we are painters in real life, and the important thing is to breathe as hard as we can breathe."

(Vincent Van Gogh via Jerry Baird)

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Magic Hands

Tanya and Tom's Hands.


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Problem Environment

Dreams and Visions

"War is an environment that will psychologically debilitate 98% of all who participate in it for any length of time and the 2% who are not driven insane by war appear to have already been insane, aggressive psychopaths before coming to the battle field."

On Killing by Lt. Col. Dave Crossman

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Patience

Vinyard, Valley of the Moon, California

Patience

Patience is the rule, the way and the goal.

Nothing good can be accomplished before its time, so have faith and relax.

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Mount Lassen

Tanya on a Mount Lassen trail

Mount Lassen

Mount Lassen is one of my very favorite places on this great planet to be—and I mean anywhere on the mountain or in the whole Lassen area!

Mount Lassen itself is a splendid peak of stone, all set about with quiet forests, splashy streams, pretty lakes, sweet smelling high meadows—and as a bonus, good stinky sulfurous hot springs and nifty bubbling mud pools ‘cause its also an active volcano just biding its time until its next big blow!

Some winters there’s masses of snow—I mean feet on feet of that great ski stuff! Enough snow to mash cabin roofs and make the few year-round residents of Mill Creek or Mineral or even Chester long for spring!

Summers are cool and wonderful—the kind of cool that would lure Ishi and his Native American ilk back year after year until the European folks wiped them out--the kind of cool that today’s sweating Redding or Red Bluff valley people dream of on their hundred-plus degree July nights.

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The Perfect Traveler

Tanya in the ruins

“A true traveler is always a vagabond, with the joys, temptations and sense of adventure of a vagabond. Either traveling is “vagabonding” or it is no travel at all. The essence of traveling is having no duties, no fixed hours, no mail, no inquisitive neighbors, no receiving delegations, and no destination. A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he is coming from. He does not even know his name and surname.”

Lin Yutang, “The Importance of Living”.

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