I am pleased to be able to offer a calendar for 2019. This is an appointments calendar for hanging on the wall and features photographs of flora from Michigan and Scotland
»Archived from 2018
The hotel at Garvault is claimed to be the most remote in the UK. So if you are forever stopping to take photos along the way, you are likely to arrive late. All the more wondrous that I did not know the owner planned to have all guests sit »
I flew to Inverness on the 6th, with Jill to follow on the 11th. The trip itself is to introduce Jill to some of the highlights I found on my recent trips: Glen Affric, Skye, Ullapool; nothing original there I guess. I traveled early, to make my own mini-NC500, »
We hadn’t originally planned to rent a car in Eugene, since the trip was envisaged as being car free, unless we were with friends or family. Hence we returned the car and took the Amtrak from Eugene to Portland. The Willamette Valley is quite flat, though you can see »
First stop in our trip to the Pacific North West brought us to Eugene, OR. We’d been so busy before we left that we hadn’t done much planning on what to do, but once we got orientated it seemed pretty obvious. Highway 126 runs from the coast through Eugene »
Another trip to Soul Studio with Jill. Further research had shown not too much further away The Nature Sanctuary run by the City of Orchard Lake. Smaller than the West Bloomfield Nature Reserve but just as wooded and I found a nice pond to »
Jill has started volunteering at Soul Studio in West Bloomfield. Just one day a week, but the journey can be horrific, involving multiple freeways; so bad in fact, she was having to contemplate abandoning the whole idea. I offered to chauffeur her, and today was the first »
The last few days we’ve been over on the west side of the state, staying at our friend’s family’s farmhouse. It rained most of the way there, and most of the first day; whereas I’d been managing a page or two of the book I was reading about coyotes »
We have a huge magnolia tree in our front yard. It keeps getting bigger, but as it ages, bits keep dropping off – it seems particularly at risk during ice storms. It’s actually a little late this year, but each spring we get an amazing display of blossoms. And »
