rants and raves, aka link farm... 14oct2024

Two iconic shots of Kyoto 12jun2024

The American dogwood is beloved in Japan, too. 09jun2024

summer wind bell/furin/風鈴 photographed against a winter sunset 29jan2024

Splotched Phalaenopsis orchids in NYC. 05oct2022

two dimly remembered stories I read as a child... 25sep2020

In 2016 I went to NOLA for a conference. 20jun2024

Paris in spring is beautiful

Fingers just don't cut it, so a lot of the 800+ megabytes I shot have washed out blurry sections. The up side is that you will not have to wade through 800 megabytes, which as I shot most of them at about a meg per picture, is a lot. The first two thumbnails represent the initial pages I threw to...

Beautiful pink ladyslippers . Local if that means ``within the region covered by the RTP field guide for midwestern flowers...'' Originally posted 14jun08. 14jun2008

2005 travels. Aka flower pix (with some occasional landscapes buried here and there...) 15may2005

Spring trip of 2004 to Minnesota. More flower pix... 22sep2004

I went to Portland in August of 2004 for the International Society of Glass Beadmakers' annual conference, The Gathering. But even if you're not interesting in glass beadmaking, there are some pix of 3 of Portland's spectacular gardens. 20aug2004

Flower pix taken during a 2002 camping trip in Wisconsin. 22may2004