Blue Heron Blast

I wrote about the false concept of moral equivalence recently and afterwards got into an interesting argument with a friend. He made a reas...

Jonathan Hill sent me this query. It is intriguing and certainly worth considering. As a photographer I find it especially challenging. I se...

Spray the kids and still have enough left over to clean the sink and toilet. All you need is a little scrub. President Donald Trump sug...

A never before processed shot of Brett, taken with the Rollei in the alley. My favorite model, my favorite shooting spot, now unfort...

As a photographer, it is hard not getting out there and shooting. We are explorers if nothing else and all have an incessant need to se...

We are getting a new power pole in our yard today. I don't think we needed it frankly, the last one was fifty years old and still do...

I mentioned that it was the anniversary of my sister's death last week. For some reason I can't listen to Jr. Walker, my favorite s...

I was driving home yesterday afternoon, returning to town with provisions (the -------are back at Major) when I decided to take a peak ...

Two very interesting articles to read. A.P.'s Mark Stevenson wrote U.S. pressures Mexico to reopen plants amid worker walkouts . And th...

People talk about Mantle's shot, the long distance stick work of Frank Howard, Killebrew, Kingman and McGuire. all legitimately stron...

Connecting with each other with words and pictures is so much more fun than grousing about politics 24/7.  My friend Terry DeWald is one of ...

We are all getting inundated with these sorts of things. Some of them are funny, some are of course, very political. I will try to balance t...

I think this is pretty cool. Pakistanis try Mexican food. Honest and sincere, I like this cross cultural stuff. Pakistani villagers try don...

The current inhabitant of the Oval office lies so much that it is almost comical at times, I don't know how anyone can take anything out...

Michael Halter, who now lives and reads the blog up in Washington will confirm, seeing Devo at the California Theater in San Diego in 1981 ...

From the New York Times - Oil Industry braces for devastation : ...the global oil industry is producing vastly more oil than the world nee...

I do not Facebook, Tweet or instagram, being comfortably ensconced in my own Blast bubble. But I admit, I do miss out on a lot of current in...

An anonymous friend of a friend sent this great video of a grey fox and her kittens from up in Hillsborough. They are so adorable. I lea...

The Red tailed hawk mother was perched on the edge of the nest as I drove by this morning. You can see a portion of her nicitating me...

We had a simple but lovely dinner last night. Dessert based. Leslie made poached pears again but approached things a little differently than...