Category Archives: Challenge 14 – Try New Places
Making a different type of wave – Offline Adventures on the Water
A close relative of mine has spent a lot of time on the water. He taught me a lot about the water and boats. Looking back I find it interesting, that time spent with someone who had spent so much time around boats and the water, well as much time as my cousin had. When [...]
A Little Mermaid Returns to the Water
I was really looking forward to swimming in the ocean this week. Years ago, when I was knee-high to a sand crab, my family would take me out the the New Jersey shore. It was there where I learned that sunburn, scraped knees, and getting tossed by waves were just a part of life. I [...]
Next Stop New Jersey
Well, the desk concept is almost in the bag. There are a few more issues to work on. I am getting good at Google Sketchup. In the mean time I have decided to take a break and join up with some family and friends in New Jersey. Looks like we are taking a little road [...]
More Tales from the Dust
I took so many pictures this weekend, but I am making a balance between sharing with friends and slowing down their browsers to a crawl. As you may know, if you have been surfing the Internet a bit, adding many pictures to one web page may slow things down a bit. So I do a [...]
Driving Out from the Dust: More Pictures from South West Oregon
Have you ever lived through something, asked a question, only to live long enough to have someone witness the same things and ask the same questions? I guess I have lived long enough for at least one of these questions. I’ll only admit to living long enough for one, well I’ll try to admit only [...]
Recursive Inspiration – Using the Unplanned to Urge Creativity
This blog has been a lot of fun. I don’t think I had aspirations of writing the stories that my friends were motivating me to write in blog form, although, I did have expectations to write creatively more frequently; if possible, everyday. Maybe it was shortsighted of me to think that I would only be [...]
Beautiful Bonsai – Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
For years and years, Dogen and I, as we drove to and from Seattle would watch the signs that read Weyerhaeuser Bonsai Collection and say to ourselves, “next time we will definitely have to do that.” We took the collection so for granted that we almost missed seeing it all together. Alas, they closed the [...]
Peek-a-boo – Shanghai Style – Duck Me!
Yesterday, I talked about our gustatory sci-fi experience. a Chinese meal that was near movie like experience. The spices and the flavors exotic, and the waitress with a second sense as to just how exotic those on the table could go. Last post was a perfect early vacation experience. Tonight, was a perfect mix of [...]
