It’s Moving, Isn’t It?

This is just too weird. As you look at this image (attempts to shrink the image to fit this page broke the very powerful affect; go ahead, it’s worth the click!), the circles in your peripheral vision seem to move. You quickly glance right or left and fix your gaze on one …

What a treat; today I used only carrots from our garden to make this cake!

This recipe is my synthesis of many recipes, none of which quite pleased me. Sources included Betty Crocker, the NY Times Cookbook, some recipes I found online, plus some others that I don’t recall.

Mike’s Carrot Cake

Ingredients

1 C Oil
1.5 C Sugar
1/2 …

We were discussing the relative mental capabilities of recent presidents, and noted the apparent trend in decreasing cognitive abilities when comparing grandson with father and then back to grandfather. As this short biography shows, there was once a brightly shining mind in this family.

In some sense he is considered to be the …

I mentioned in a previous post that we were too late returning from our Kansas trip to attend what was no doubt a most excellent Neil Young concert; but we did have our reasons.

As it turned out, detouring to visit our Yorkie breeder south of Sacramento proved to be worth missing Neil; we finally …

Three weeks, 5000 miles and 1200 photos later, we’re back from our visit to Kansas, where we had a great time! As reflected in this journal, we took our time both coming and going, exploring the vast and rugged Southwest United States.

Our time in Kansas was very satisfying as we got to spend a …

One of the nice surprises related to my recent geocaching activities was the discovery of an excellent Kansas photo site. Created by Glen Soldan, Our Kansas!, is a great resource for anyone looking for some beautiful spots to visit in Kansas.

There are numerous links to both places to visit as well as other …

We started home about 3:30pm Monday, leaving due west on US 56 out of McPherson. We had an uneventful drive, arriving in Lamar Colorado, around 8pm; well in time for the sunset:

The next day, on Colorado highway 10, we spied a most marvelous site; mile after mile …