8/5/2017 Arlene’s parents live in Post Falls so it was very convenient to meet up there after my conference and go a birding. On our first adventure we drove around Hayden Lake, Farragut state park, Round Lake, and environs. Shaded creek Osprey An … More Birding North of Coeur d’Alene
The Pacific Northwest Library Association conference was held at Post Falls this year, and I was lucky enough to be able to attend. This conference usually has really interesting speakers. It isn’t a huge conference so you can get to know people and do some real networking too. It also takes place in some gorgeous … More Post Falls for PNLA
Melinda and I birded our way around Grays Lake in June and got to see many wonderful things including a very scruffy red fox, a running carpet that turned out to be a badger and lots of birds. Mammals: 1 Uinta ground squirrel 2 Least chipmunks 3 Red foxes 4 Badger 5 Cotton tail bunny … More Time Travel: June 20 2016
My father was just out of surgery and not feeling well so Shanna and I loaded up Raphael Jr., and headed for Texas on early Monday morning, you know, two days after that long Tetons trip. Our first day of driving got us to Burlington Colorado. Lightning lit the sky as we did the final … More A Surprise Visit to Italy TX
7/29/2017 Shanna and I needed to go do something as just us. We may live and work at the same places, but our lives don’t actually connect except around mealtimes and other household activities. So we decided to go explore a little dirt road that I found on the paper Idaho atlas. It looked to … More Exploration: Ashton – Jackson Hole
In June of 2016 I went birding at my favorite spot: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. It was a very, very good birding day. American avocets, American coots, American kestrels, American robins, American white pelicans Bank swallows, Barn swallows, Black billed magpies, Brown headed cowbirds, Black crowned night herons Black necked stilts, Bonaparte’s gulls, Common ravens, California gulls, Canada … More Time Travel: June 21, 2016
A return to the modern medieval period. It’s been almost 20 years since I last regularly attended activities with/in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism: http://www.sca.org/). My friends John & Bill have been somewhat more active recently and finally, (it’s taken 3 years) they convinced me to attend the Artemisia XX year celebration. by Bill … More Artemisia XX Year Celebration
I’ve never entered Yellowstone National Park through the East Entrance before. After driving through some gorgeous places such as Thermopolis, Meeteestse, and Cody I pulled up to the parking booth for the park… I don’t know what this structure in Cody is, but it’s fascinating. I had tossed my parks pass into my bag before … More Home thru Yellowstone – Sunday
The Wyoming plains are swells and hills with unexpected rivers, lakes, ponds, and plenty of Pronghorn aka Antelope. I spotted many on my way to Casper including a pair of frolicking youngsters. I was unable to stop for many reasons many of which include the word traffic. But on the way home I stopped and … More Crossing Wyoming – Sunday
This is one fancy arena: I think I liked the horse running free as part of the opening ceremonies the best, though this was very cool too. I spent some of yesterday and another part of this day working on the settings and usage of my camera. I really like that I am getting better … More CNFR Day 4 – Saturday
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