I've been using Wordpress cloud software for years, but recently they have changed their code to the point where i can't use it at all.
I am on an old Mac Mini - 10.4 OS, Safari 4.1.3, Firefox 3.6....something.
(Did i hear someone say 'dinosaur'? They lived for millions of years, way longer than humans have, so maybe that's not such a good comparison.)
Everything works just fine.. except for these blogs.
Grrrr!!!!
I am pissed, i can't do anything w/ WP blogs now.
Here's the previous blog, many years of good posts and photography there.
But there is always a work-around isn't there?
I will redirect all blog pages, just once, using a newer computer where i work, to a blogspot continuation.
I have often quoted 'Ah-nold' the Terminator's now famous line - "Ah'll be back" - I will!
And I should add a Don Henley song - "I will not go quietly" - I won't.
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Road trips definitely supply much food for thought!
SundayReview | Opinion | NY Times
Are We Loving Our National Parks to Death?
By DAYTON DUNCAN - AUG. 6, 2016
"The tension between access and preservation has become ever more strained today."
Yosemite - a place for contemplation of nature's majesty?
Or the theatre of climbing the face of Half Dome w/ no ropes or gear whatsoever?
'Frustrated Mavericks surfers long for simpler times'
What Mavericks has become:
I first visited the place - the town is called Princeton Harbor, Pillar point is the name of the beach, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve the name of the stretch of the beach for about a mile north of that - in..oooh... 1993. I felt like i had the place to myself, i rarely bumped into anyone there. Maybe one lone fisherman, it was just me and the sea and the sand (and rocks!) ((and seaweed)) (((and the seals basking on strips of rocks off the beach, they eyed me warily...)))
There was a small rough and raw seafood market at the end of a row of retail places just behind the harbor piers selling all kinds of stuff only asians buy or know what to do with - like urchins.
Now it's a 'destination' - bring the kids and the picnic basket.
I've witnessed similar growth, first in Wash DC & environs from 1970 to 1991, and in SF from 1992 to the present. The apt i lived in on 12th Ave just north of GG Park for $550 a mo.(93-2002) now probably costs $2K/mo.
Here's an excellent book to read:
Edward Abbey - 'Desert Solitaire'
He spent one summer as a ranger in Arches NP, Utah.
There are a couple of pages that describe Abbey's experience w/ 'progress', when a team of engineers appears at his trailer door, to show him plans of a new road to be built, for public access. After they leave, he follows the trail of stakes w/ orange ribbons on them, pulls them all up, and throws them as far as he can, into nowhere.
He spent one summer as a ranger in Arches NP, Utah.
There are a couple of pages that describe Abbey's experience w/ 'progress', when a team of engineers appears at his trailer door, to show him plans of a new road to be built, for public access. After they leave, he follows the trail of stakes w/ orange ribbons on them, pulls them all up, and throws them as far as he can, into nowhere.
I have read several articles recently about how at Joshua Tree NP, rangers are overwhelmed by visitors.
There are however many places that will never, EVER be overrun. They are just too rugged.
This is Valley of Fire in Nevada
Native Americans did just fine here.
There are precious few anglos who can do so, here's one of them:
The Secret Knowledge of Water
Discovering the essence of the American desert.
http://www.houseofrain.com/
http://www.houseofrain.com/bookdetail.cfm?id=1183863164364
Native Americans did just fine here.
There are precious few anglos who can do so, here's one of them:
The Secret Knowledge of Water
Discovering the essence of the American desert.
http://www.houseofrain.com/
http://www.houseofrain.com/bookdetail.cfm?id=1183863164364
Craig Childs writes about the relationship between
humans, animals, landscape, and time. His stories come from visceral,
personal experience, whether in the company of illicit artifact dealers
or in deep wilderness. Childs has published more than a dozen critically
acclaimed books, including his most recent book, Apocalyptic Planet,
which won the Orion Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing
Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
Men's Journal, and Outside. An occasional commentator for National
Public Radio's Morning Edition, Childs lives in Western Colorado and
teaches writing for both University of Alaska in Anchorage and Southern
New Hampshire University.
This photo is a great way to end this post.
