In which I cannot stop myself from outright stealing a post from The Elegant Variation. Forgive me, Mark. The greater thing was heat. In North Africa, the sun had been neutral, an impartial horror of war. Now, with cessation of hostilities, heat came out in its true colours as the enemy. The privileged of theContinue reading “Heat, by Shirley Hazzard”
Category Archives: the land
SoCal: Still Looks Like a Movie, Even on Fire
The movies have nothing on SoCal. Still. Here’s a shot, courtesy of the LATimes, from an "Irvine Resident" who appears to have taken it while he was out "parking" with a babe. (Am I being unfair?)
Fiery Sunset
It’s warm tonight, and the wind is gusting strongly — it’s making us nervous. Earlier today the wind was blowing more to the south, but it’s shifted — fire could be coming our way. Here’s what a sunset looks like through thick smoke. Kinda pretty. Just don’t breath too much…
Sunday Morning on the Planet: Dawn at the Big Five Lakes
Great Bird Poem
By Steven Hind, of Kansas. Great Blue HeronBy Steven Hind Behind the pond under a whispering scarf of willows, heron does his lone knifewalk beside the wind-fretted waters. His deft movements make a death defying progress: a life of mud transmuted into sky life as he rows away on a river of air and itsContinue reading “Great Bird Poem”
Sunday on the Planet: The Twilight Wedge
Below is a phenomena I have seen only in my so-called "Secret Camp," which I learned this week, can be attributed to the fact that only in this location am I likely to be looking many miles east during a sunset. I thought that the sky was blue at the horizon, and pink above, becauseContinue reading “Sunday on the Planet: The Twilight Wedge”
A New Kind of Travel: Climate Tourists
The Wall Street Journal runs a slightly snarky but undeniably fresh article about a new kind of tourism: Global warming has given rise to a new niche in the booming eco-tourism business: climate tourists. These visitors seek out places where a long-term warming trend — subject of a global summit hosted by the United NationsContinue reading “A New Kind of Travel: Climate Tourists”
Sunday Morning on the Planet: The Sierra Nevadas
Still beautiful. From near my favorite site, which I call "Secret Camp" — though it’s not mine. It belongs to anyone who can find it in the Big Five Lakes area of the Southern Sierra. More soon.
Proud Yucca
Can’t resist posting for no good reason this wonderful photo from Codejoy in White Sands, N.M.
Urban Rangers Invade Malibu
A story I wanted to write, but poet Dana Goodyear beat me to it, for the New Yorker.. The gray-shingled house belongs to the entertainment mogul David Geffen. In 2005, after losing a long legal fight, he opened the path to the public, and last Sunday the Los Angeles Urban Rangers convened some thirty peopleContinue reading “Urban Rangers Invade Malibu”
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