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July 10th, 20167/10/2016 Being on Ranier a couple of weeks ago, and then living through 90s and heat indices in the 100s, I was reminded of the cruise to Alaska. And so, for all of us suffering through another even hotter summer, here are a couple of glaciers: the first the Mendenhall near Juneau and the second the Hubbard in Glacier Bay:
July 07th, 20167/7/2016 Barred owl in the woods behind my son's house in Washington Jack Dykinga wrote: "I suffer from a love affair with this planet. My camera is my ticket to a front row seat for the spectacle of nature. It has taught me to see with greater intensity, understand more deeply, and appreciate more fully the blue planet we call home."
I couldn't say it better. This also reminds me of a favorite line that comes from the Prayer Book: "this fragile earth, our island home." If we could but learn to love it more and mistreat it less!! July 03rd, 20167/3/2016 Mukilteo Lighthouse Beach
Walker Evans: "unless I feel that the product is a transcendence of the thing, of the moment in reality, then I haven't done anything . . ." (quoted in Joseph Ward's American Silences) This reminds me again of Minor White's saying that one should not photograph a thing only for what it is but for what more it is. July 02nd, 20167/2/2016 I have returned from a week in the Seattle area. Lots of images; it will take some time to work through them. Below are varying examples of what was there to be seen . . . The first is in Mt. Rainer National Park; the second is the Space Needle in Seattle from below; and the third is from the gulch near my son's home. Each is representative in its way of the area.
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