These photos are from our property in the Altar Valley which is west of the Tucson basin. Click on the title to launch the slideshow.

These photos are from our property in the Altar Valley which is west of the Tucson basin. Click on the title to launch the slideshow.
I know some of you think that Inga rarely leaves the house, but believe it or not, there was a time when Inga embarked on grand adventures to far away places. Fifteen years ago, Inga and I belonged to the University of Washington Spelunking Club and we went on week long caving expeditions in Montana …
Inga and I were digging through some old papers the other day and we came across an essay I wrote in 1975, my junior year of high school. It was published in the school's literary journal. As I retype it here, it's really hard to not edit it, to improve on the prose of a …
If you read Pisces 2004, you know that I engaged that water energy in a big way by taking up SCUBA again after a 22 year hiatus. I have put myself through a basic SCUBA course and have aced all the written exams as I only needed to make minor adjustments here and there to …