June 29, 2015

Fire Season 2015 winds down as monsoon flexes muscles. I scramble for photo ops.

My boss told me today that we close the lookout on July 24. Tentatively. But with the rains we are getting, most likely. I am way behind on my "photo-quoto." But today was good. The hawks must have heard my lament. They showed up at the lookout early, and played all morning. The monsoonal sunrise was great. As was sunset during a storm.

June 27, 2015

Fire Lookout Rainbow .. just now! (6/26/2016 at 6:45 PM)

Incredible! What a day! What a sight over the Wilderness of Rocks in southern Arizona!

June 23, 2015

"Rachel's Righteous Rant"

I'm in Tucson on a required day off, tomorrow. I had a steak across the street, and came back to watch a little TV: MSNBC. Rachel Maddow. What a righteous rant! All about SC, and the secessionist flag, and the Citizens Conservative Council (ersatz KKK). And the history of the rebel flag over the SC state house (raised first over 100 years after the start of the Civil War, in 1962, as a message to the Civil Rights movement). If you did not see it, check it out on the innertube. I'm sure it is there.


Ironically, I post this tonight from the most western outpost of the ill-fated Confederacy. Old Pueblo (Tucson) flew the Confederate flag for a time. The CSA dream was a coast-to-coast, southern tier, break-away nation, with an economy propped up on the backs of African (and maybe others, later) slaves. That dream faced reality at a place northwest of Tucson called Pichacho Peak. Unionist sympathizer troops from California met the Confederate sympathizers from Tucson. Several times. The Californian's repelled the Confederate advance

So lower this obnoxious symbol, wherever it flies in government or public domains. If you love it, and the specious times it represents, display it in your home. Revel in it. Put it over your basement bar, where no dark person will ever venture (except maybe the "help&quot . Toast it with your friends from the club. Party like you are at the Dallas Country Club on the night of November 22, 1963 (and a friend of mine was, and disgusted by the celebration over JFK's death, resigned the Club).

Or put it in your front window, and display your ignorance and racism to the world. Because, if I see it I will shoot it. I promise.

June 23, 2015

Godamn, Rachel Maddow is steamed tonight!

The South's CCC (Citizens' Conservative Council), as an ersatz KKK. Great stuff. I'm watching it at 9PM PDT, so it might have been posted before. Go Rachel!

June 14, 2015

BOHICA - the moon-ass photos guaranteed to get me banned At DU

Painted Hills of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon


Bend over. Geological pornography, in color.

June 14, 2015

And some moon shots ..

Hosmer Lake Moonrise
Cascade Range High Lakes
Deschutes National Forest, Oregon


Floating Moon
Coronado National Forest
Arizona


Moon Over East Butte Fire Lookout
Deschutes National Forest
Oregon


Pale Moon Rising
Central Oregon High Desert


High Desert Moonrise
Central Oregon

June 14, 2015

DUers know my western fire photos. Here is something different ..

Most of these are entries into "Slow Exposures: Photos of the Rural South"


Apalachicola Oyster Boats in a February Rain


Rich Mountain Road, Transylvania County NC


Grayton Beach, Florida


Cemetery - Apalachicola, Florida


Gulf Coast Sunset - Alligator Lake Cut
Grayton Beach, FL


Gulf Bounty


Festive Barn - Transylvania County, NC


Gulf Coast Sunset - Alligator Lake Cut
Grayton Beach, FL


Western Lake Heron - Grayton Beach, FL