Grand Canyon Lodge June 18 2025
The gloriously beautiful Grand Canyon Lodge burned down on July 12, 13, 2025. I stayed there for four nights in June. I took this photograph from just below the Lodge. Observation room on the right; the huge dining room on the left. Great views from all windows.
Garden Flower
This is an experiment for a new series of flowers and landscapes. Series to make a near daily appearance in September with species or geographic information included for each.
Harwood Art Theft Solved
During my time as Curator, Harwood Museum of Art, two paintings were stolen: March 20, 1985. Allegedly by Jerry and Rita Alter. This strange pair was featured in a documentary, The Thief Collector. Intrepid true crime investigator Lou Schachter looked into the matter...
Democrats I Have Your Solution Post 2024 Election
Rather than react to MAGA with despair or resistance (“Resistance is futile.”) or continuing to rely on failed #1 and #2 theories, consider meeting the majority of American people where they live and work. Less identity politics and more quality-of-life-for-everyone policies. Roosevelt and the New Deal is a model to build upon.
Water Under Ice
Yerba Canyon, Taos County, February 8, 2023. Water flow blur photograph.
I Got Mine by John Nichols
Novelist John Nichols writes about his life in a new memoir on the artistic process, I Got Mine.
Generally True Patterns
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature raison d’être Part 1 of 22 This series on generally true patterns in nature is offered at what may be the concluding moments of our civilization, the “Anthropocene”...
Generally True Patterns #1
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature raison d’être Part 1 of 22 This series on generally true patterns in nature is offered at what may be the concluding moments of our civilization, the “Anthropocene”...
Generally True Patterns #2
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as a Part of Nature Part 2 of 22 Chapter 1 Patterns Part I: Above All Else, Nature Is Characterized by Movement East of where Santa Monica Boulevard ascends a steep hill...
Generally True Patterns #3
Generally True Patterns: A New Natural History of Recognizing Ourselves as Part of Nature Part 3 of 22 Chapter 1 Patterns Part II: Above All Else, Nature Is Characterized by Movement My role is to act as a natural historian of pattern recognition....