A published article!! Please find it at Matador Travel – Brave New Traveler. I am posting some pictures here that illustrate the article. Thanks for checking it out – and please leave a comment there if you have time!! *** *** *** ***
Do you ever notice the connections that run through your life? Some are major – can’t miss them. Some are so small, so infinitesimal, it would take a magnifying glass to locate them. In my mind, I think in shapes or pictures or typeset words. The connections I am referring to look like circles. Like … More The Venn Diagram of My Brain
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) on writing: When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
The snow has almost disappeared. And look what I spotted today! There is an end to the eternal in-between time; the end of winter and beginning of spring. The streets are mucky and gray, the ground is too wet to walk on, and garbage appears from under piles of melting snow. As I walked the … More Transitions…..
Mother Nature, queen of all she sees… Marbled Orbweaver, Araneus marmoreus Not dangerous; the dogs found it clinging to the side of the house yesterday afternoon. So that’s what’s been spinning all those webs on the porch rails! Its bulbous body was approximately 18 mm across – HUGE. Bufo Americanus? We were walking along the … More Along came a spider…. and a toad….and a tree…
There is one more Bali post in the wings, but life has interfered with my blog time! Thanks to encouragement from Linda Shoreacres, I am posting pictures today. Thanks Linda. You made my day!! This trip to Bali was about a lot of things for me. Spending time alone, reading, meeting people, taking photos, writing. … More Bali – and people
Padangbai. The Indian Ocean. Not the surfer’s paradise on the west coast, but the diver’s paradise on the east coast. Japanese, Dutch, Australian – the latter, big with blond hair and sun reddened skin, out for drinks after a day of diving. And me, escaping the jungle and the insects and the lizards and the … More Bali – 9
There is a long, dense line of volcanoes running through Indonesia, and Bali has its fair share – two live volcanoes on this 2,000 square miles island. We left home around 10 am and drove north through Kintimani, down into the crater created long, long ago by Gunung Batur (5633 feet), an active volcano that … More bali – 8
Finally! I made it to a gamelan concert and dance. We were invited by a friend of a friend from California. The first orchestra to play was a group visiting Bali for a month from the US, studying Balinese music. The performance was great, and it looked like they were having tremendous fun. Then the … More bali – 7
My friend the tree frog that lives in the kitchen light fixture I didn’t drink any tea after dinner last night, so I didn’t have to worry about snakes and lizards and things that go bump in the dark when I walk downstairs to the bathroom at 3 am! I plan to be just as … More Bali – 6
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