No demands. No customers calling. No bills in the mail. Just peace and quiet.
Author: John Parris
Lone, bare tree at sunset
Mountain passes
To the timid traveler, fresh from the sedimentary levels of the lowlands, these highways, however picturesque and grand, seem terribly forbidding — cold, dead, gloomy gashes in the bones of the mountains, and of all Nature’s ways the ones to be most cautiously avoided. Yet they are full of the finest and most telling examples … Continue reading
Woods
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. – … Continue reading
Last week of summer
Sunset at Cheraw State Park during the last week of summer.
Celery on the beach
Just a piece of celery getting a little sun.
Cat in the birdbath
Just a cat bathing in the birdbath.
Dumb animals
Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December’s tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after … Continue reading
Educational system
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions. – Noam Chomsky
Mountain sunrise
The view out of the bedroom window on the morning I got married.