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Photo Memory of the Week
Also not a finch. Or a canary.
Music of the Week
Quote of the Week
“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
Source: Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Posted: 2025 Nov 28And check out this post for more of Richard Feynman's world view.
Tag Archives: Desert
Badlands Trailhead, SD
Sign-in book at hiking trailhead. Continue reading
Go South and West, Old Photographer
Scenes of, and thoughts about, the Badlands. Continue reading
Desert Vista, Kata Tjuta, AUS
A desert vista from Australia that is remarkably similar to one from Arizona. Continue reading
Desert Vista, Las Vegas NV
A 2014 trip to Las Vegas turns up unexpected vistas. Continue reading
Bitter. Sweet.
Bam! Off to my left, four mourning doves explode from cover and I jump involuntarily. My heart pitter-patters from the unexpectedness of it all. As they flap awkwardly off to what they evidently see as better cover, I mutter a … Continue reading
Lead Dog
A series of desert walks leads to an insight about leadership at work. At the trailing end of a peripatetic foursome, I look down the trail. The men have gone on ahead a little way; my sister and I … Continue reading