10 Years Ago: Day 2 of the Journey Home
I was too busy traveling during the day and too busy at night to post these photos at the time they were taken, on the 2nd day of our trip home, 10 years ago. I did commemorate the occasion 7 years ago and would direct you there for a recap of the day’s highlights, which…
10 Years Ago: The Journey Begins
September 24th, 2004. It was a Friday. And after an exciting and stress-filled summer (is buying a house ever easy?), and after a very intensive weekend spent packing a semi-trailer with all of our belongings, we were on our way. We were moving back to Lindsborg, to a house we purchased during our visit in…
Walking the Long Miles Home
Here’s a shot of Westminster taken in September 2013. It’s been processed using Topaz Simplify giving it kind of a “painterly” look. (Click to see a larger version of the image.)
Oh Sunflower
I’ve enjoyed the song Sunflower, by Toni Price, ever since I first heard it. The lyrics always suggested my granddaughter Moneka to me, even more so as she blossoms into a smart, tough, beautiful and mature young woman. Today, I was riding my bike when I saw the sunflower shown below. I should note that…
Scenes from the Meadowlark Trail
Since they put a surface on the Meadowlark Trail south of town I’ve been able to ride the first mile on my road bike. Still need an off-road bike, a rugged hybrid or mountain bike, to ride the whole distance, but the first mile is pretty nice and quite do’able on a road bike. The…
Cracked Bontrager SSR Equals New Boyd Altamonts
I broke a rear spoke a couple of weeks ago, and dropped the wheel at the local bike store for repair. When I went to pick it up the mechanic had me take a close look. As seen below, there is a fairly long crack where the spoke is attached to the rim. Turns out,…
Glowrocks 2014
I took a few photos of some of our most colorful fluorescent minerals. The rocks were lit with a shortwave UV lights. They are all from the Franklin, New Jersey area and like all minerals from that region, are extremely colorful! The different colors indicate the different minerals: Barite, cream Calcite, red Clinohedrite, orange Franklinite,…
Meadowlark Trail, Smoky Hill River
I rode my normal route this morning, and then having extra time since it was the weekend, I rode on down the Meadowlark Trail. It’s been recently “surfaced” and by that I mean the previously rocky and somewhat difficult to ride trail has been covered with a layer of very hard packed dirt. It’s very…
This Explains Everything
I read this comic as a pretty young kid. I remember I impressed Pastor Molander during our Thursday Church Release sessions, due to the fact I had heard of Descarte. It didn’t matter so much why or how I knew, he appeared to be amazed that a 7th grader was aware of the man and…