2022 The Northern Route – Visby Redwoods
Speaking of trees, I failed to mention about Visby something important—I discovered there was a botanical garden a mile from my hotel and since I am always happy in such places I walked there a time or two each day. It’s only about 5 acres and is essentially a park...
2022 The Northern Route – Mönsterås Sweden
11 October: Ferried back to the mainland (Oskarshamn) from Visby last evening, spent the night there, and then drove south 100 km to my present hotel—a lap of luxury sort of place that I’d have never chosen but through neglect let the agent do. I’m by nature too...
2022 The Northern Route – Iceland
3 September: Iceland, the name and the mental imagery that goes with it, evokes visions of icesheets and glaciers and, to a lesser extent, the streams and rivers fed by their meltwater (which in N. America, where I’ve seen it, is always turquoise colored but here is...
Thoughts From My Journal – Desert Seeds
1-26: I have discovered who initiates the intimacy of the close relations I have spoken of. Not surprisingly, it is the cactus; out of the millions of seeds cast to their fates every year only a small minority germinate and grow. Those with the good fortune to land...
