Light Switches
Redundancy
Amazon says: “Discover the world’s all-time bestseller in an entirely new light”. The “Books you may like” section has “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, by Carl Sagen, as its first suggestion.
A Cruise up the Inside Passage, 2011-07-06
July 2011 we took a family cruise through the Alaska Inside Passage.
The highlight of the trip was a visit to the Tracy Arm Fjord.
It was early morning. It was very still.
At the end of the fjord is the Sawyer Glacier. The fjord was undoubtedly cut by that glacier and it’s vanished cousins. The fjord is 600 feet deep below the glacier; you could think of this like floating 600 feet in the air through Yosemite Valley. This cliff would be much higher…
Here’s the Sawyer Glacier:
Though I didn’t get a picture, my most vivid memories are of flocks of large birds in the distance, flying over the water. Geese, pelicans, maybe, flying in silence. This is wilderness — no roads filled with family vans looking for a campsite here.
The side canyons are beautiful and forbidding. The area is part of the “Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness”, and according to the USDA, “…there are no established hiking trails or public recreation facilities…” However, I’m sure that with sufficient determination and resources it would be possible to trek in some of these canyons.
Walking into the sun 2020-03-29
Hot dogs and peanut butter — life in a coronavirus world
I purchased a package of 36 hot dogs while at Costco recently. Serious business — it goes with the peanut butter and jelly I got several days before that. But sadly, the mustard jar is almost empty.
Thinking about retirement while vacationing at Lake Como
Coping with Retirement
I went on Facebook today; saw many posts from Facebook friends related to my work life, and fell into a revery. There’s no way I would ever want to go back — the bite of being a person of leisure, world traveler, and detached observer of humanity goes a bit too deep, and the freedom is glorious. But the pull of the world of work is still there, and it hurts a bit. Sitting at my balcony looking over Lake Como, hearing the Italian chatter outside, the call of ducks, the lapping waves, and thinking about — thinking about everything. There isn’t anything I would rather be doing at the moment, but a bit of sadness about things undone hangs over it.
(2014-05-26)
March 19, 2020
From our March 19 walk. Nice sky.
March 17, 2020, start of CV-19 photo stream…
This was the date the Alameda County “Shelter in Place” order came into effect. I thought the situation was potentially serious, but this was the first indication that people in government were actually spooked.
I made a light commitment to take photos every day, mostly walking around the neighborhood. I’ll post some of those pictures over the next few days.
The parking lot at Hacienda
Christina described it as “eerie”, and it was. Almost after the Zombie Apocalypse eerie. “What happened to all the people” eerie.
Casey
