Mary Winston and Petroglyph – March 1997 Mary climbing her last peak, Haden Butte – November 2023 Mary on the wall surrounding Dubrovnik – 2023 Dining in Mostar Bosnia – 2023
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Souvenirs – Morocco Meanderings – A Camal
A Camel Not a real camel, of course. This one is barely 4” tall, fashioned from coat hanger wire covered with purple felt, stitched together with blue thread and adorned with green yarn. It is a treasured gift. Ourazate –
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Berber Woman Vanadinite A small piece of vanadinite sits on a plate with geodes and quartz atop a shelf in our hallway. Slender fins of barite, grading charcoal to soft gray, overlap each other at various angles, embedding white calcite
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Steam Engine, Northern Nevada Railway Museum, Ely, Nevada “My primary job is to greet the steam engines as they roll into the wide bays of the engine house in Ely, Nevada. Only after the final screech of brakes and long
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Virginia City is what happens when a mining boomtown lies close enough to a large population center to keep it from decaying into a heap of rotted timbers and rusted machinery. The town arose on the wealth of Comstock silver
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View near Summit Lake, Alcan Highway, British Columbia, Canada Summit Lake Dave Not a bulldog nor a greyhound, a bit short and stumpy, greying hair slicked back from an elongated, leathered face, Dave doesn’t look athletic. Yet he is on
Read moreButch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid. Myth. And What They Say about Us.
Butch and Sundance in South America Okay, I admit to a weakness for gorgeous men. Anyone care to argue about the merits of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in their youth? I’m transported by scenes of horses and riders
Read moreThe World’s Highest Forest – Sajama, Bolivia
Passengers stuffed cheek to jowl, bulging mantas and boxes underfoot, an implausible number of sacks and bags tethered to the top, the small, cranky red van finally rattles off toward Sajama National Park and its namesake village. The 6’5” tall
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Cerro Rico Silver Mines Potosi, Bolivia We purchase soda, alcohol, pure tobacco, coca leaves and a stick of dynamite in a narrow hole of a shop on the road to the Cerro Rico mines. Handled appropriately, these items guarantee
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We spot our first grizzlies fishing along the beach as the float plane carves down to the narrow inland sea at Hallo Bay on the Katmai Peninsula where we will disembark. “The sows often take their cubs to the islands
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