Scene from the front yard
A mother and son stroll through the woods at the front of our house (the bull calf is the one you can see).
March 21, 2006
January 3, 2006
December 6, 2005
LitAA Random Event Recorder
I took this photo in the Calgary Airport, to remind me to talk about series fatigue. Is there anyone out there other than me that gave up on Robert Jordan? I read the first 6 books in the “Wheel of Time” series eagerly. The next couple I struggled through. I didn’t even finish book 9, and haven’t bothered to buy volumes 10 or 11. Do you really need 10,000 pages to tell a good story? Fantasy is my favorite genre, so it’s pretty bad when you manage to lose my interest in a story.
My all time favorites, even more than Tolkein (heresy, I know) are the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
Read the reviews - it’s a series of books you either love or hate, there’s no middle ground. For me, it was the first fantasy I ever read where the hero wasn’t, you know, heroic.
November 30, 2005
October 31, 2005
Harvesting Sugarcane
We have been staying with some friends in Morganza, Louisiana for the past few days - deep in the heart of sugarcane country. Yesterday at sunset, we noticed a cloud of fog or smoke rising up from behind a dense strand of trees. The reason for the “fog” became clear as we rounded the bend - we were seeing dust thrown up by cane harvesters.
The sight was really pretty spectacular, as we watched the last light of the setting Sun diffract off of the dust particles being thrown up by the harvesting machines.
The colors got more intense as the Sun rapidly slipped below the horizon.
