Here’s a mental exercise: Assume that this photo above represents a newly discovered virus somewhere in China. After first being observed and ignored, and following a suppression of the news about the virus’s discovery lasting many weeks…Suppose that the Chinese city recognizes a dangerous epidemic[…]
USA and North America
Approximately one month ago, Houston, Texas was inundated by the storm surge caused by hurricane Harvey. In an unprecedented series of Atlantic hurricanes, Harvey was followed in quick succession by hurricane Irma which struck Florida, hurricane Maria which devastated Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,[…]
Detroit The short tragic history of Detroit is that race riots in the late sixties caused “white flight”, drastically lowering the tax base and precipitating the relocation of major industries away from Detroit. The lack of jobs led to a reduction in Detroit’s total population[…]
2014 Georgia Blog (with a bit of Alabama) During my extensive travels through the years, I’ve cultivated a private pleasure on long plane flights. That is, I catch up on my unread New York Times magazine sections, as well as any unread Book Review and[…]
This blog is about a remarkable cousin who lives in a wonderful place. Seventy-six-year-old cousin Dick is actually my wife Susan’s firstcousin. We have met each other infrequently over the years. Dick and his wife Julie visited us in Reno once. And Susan and I[…]
Above is the view from Homer, Alaska, looking across the bay in the late afternoon. As we traveled across the Denali Highway, the 105 mile dirt road through this incredible wilderness, with higher elevation came fresh snow. This was the view from[…]
Dear Blog Readers, I have so many photos from my recent Alaska trip, that I want to share them with a minimum of narrative. I was lucky to have had the three beautiful days during the week I was there. Looking at the weather since[…]
I love my job. I get to seek out beautiful environments and do my best to capture their images on video for future broadcast on the CARE Channel. It was for this purpose that I traveled recently to Alaska. My adopted brother Bill from[…]