Saturday, September 13, 2014

West is best

I have had the good fortune to travel out west a few times - I'm thinking 7 states - Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Washington and Montana. While the east, where I have spent most of my life, is beautiful too, for dramatic natural beauty I can't think of anywhere I've been with so many Wow! moments. I took a couple of thousand photos in two weeks. Ten thousand photos wouldn't be enough. But here's a little more than 50. You can have even too many pictures of natural beauty. I'd put them right here on this post, but I can't figure out how (even though it seems like you can just click the photo button and upload - I can't do it). Damn you modern technology!




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9/19/14 update.  Okay, so that was a total failure. But, I figured out how to tediously put all the pictures below.






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About Me

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I started this blog in September, 2006. Mostly, it is where I can talk about things that interest me, which I otherwise don't get to do all that much, about some remarkable people who should not be forgotten, philosophy and theories (like Don Foster's on who wrote A Visit From St. Nicholas and my own on whether Santa is mostly derived from a Norse god) and analysis of issues that concern me. Often it is about books. I try to quote accurately and to say when I am paraphrasing (more and more). Sometimes I blow the first name of even very famous people, often entertainers. I'm much better at history, but once in a while I see I have written something I later learned was not true. Sometimes I fix them, sometimes not. My worst mistake was writing that Beethoven went blind, when he actually went deaf. Feel free to point out an error. I either leave in the mistake, or, if I clean it up, the comment pointing it out. From time to time I do clean up grammar in old posts as, over time I have become more conventional in my grammar, and I very often write these when I am falling asleep and just make dumb mistakes. It be nice to have an editor, but . . . .