During several hours in the Shake and Bake (my nickname for the Land Cruiser, as it bumped along Tanzania’s hot, dusty roads), we climbed into the highlands along the Rift Valley, finally fetching up at Gibbs’ Farm, near Karatu. On the road, inhaling red dust, I was finally able to get a cell phone signal and call home. It was
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In May of this year, some robins built this nest and raised their brood in the river birch tree outside my upstairs window. In August, a mourning dove appropriated the empty nest to hatch her eggs. Now, a lone walnut rests in the somewhat weatherbeaten nest: a squirrel’s cache of winter food.
On my way home this afternoon, I stopped by Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, in Mercer County, Kentucky. Always a pleasant stop in October. The shaggy bovine was my first greeter. I headed past him for the Trustees House, where I wanted to photograph the double stairways. When the Shakers lived at Pleasant Hill, there were separate stairways for men and
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