“A Face in the Crowd” is this week’s WordPress photo challenge — I knew right away where to take this one. It was the most beautiful of days in one of the most beautiful of places on earth. Giant’s Causeway is a UNESCO World Heritage…
Author: Douglas Wielfaert
This week’s WordPress photo challenge is entitled: Tour Guide and asks “What do you love about where you live? Show us!” As I commute home this time of year, the clear air gives me a great view of the Smoky Mountains looking directly at the peak…
“I wrote some lines once on a time In wondrous merry mood, And thought, as usual, men would say They were exceeding good.” – The Height of the Ridiculous, Oliver Wendell Holmes There was no small energy expended Saturday fretting over publishing a new post…
Sure, I’ve had a few seasons of the blues. Of course, winter is the perfect blue season, and the cold, coughing, stark, sloppy, bill-paying January blues can be the worst. A small dose of Isaiah 40:31 always seems to get me back to a quick…
“The Spectacle before us was indeed Sublime” – A Trip To Venus, John Munro, (1897) A technical task brings to mind a pleasant memory I love the ornate language that John Munro used here. I had never heard of his book “A Trip to Venus”,…
Last January (2017), Marcy and I enjoyed a day trip to the Hiwassee River Sandhill Crane Festival hosted in the little town of Birchfield, Tennessee. Along with Marcy and me, there were hundreds of other bird watchers queued up at the local high school to…
