Travel Words Seldom Seen: Saturnine SimonSeptember 5, 20250 Saturnine Adjective: Exhibiting a gloomy, surly, sardonic attitude. Basically a downer. Has astrological...
Travel Nationalism SimonSeptember 4, 20250 “Nationalism only becomes poisonous when the dose is too large.” This classical Japanese print was given to...
Maxims The Abyss SimonSeptember 3, 20250 "I stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back." Nietzsche This meme (I think this is what a meme is)...
DECLINE Remembering SimonSeptember 2, 20250 "One of the oddest things in life, I think, is the things one remembers." Agatha Christie, Author Photo is...
Immigration Happy Labor Day SimonSeptember 1, 20250 "Among the least successful parts of the indigenous population the success of immigrants can demoralize rather...
Travel Words Seldom Seen: Bromide SimonAugust 29, 20250 Bromide Noun: A chemical used as a sedative. Now more commonly used to describe a hackneyed saying meant to...
Hiking Courage SimonAugust 28, 20251 "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." Mark Twain This picture was taken at...
Hiking Connections SimonAugust 27, 20251 "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." John...
DECLINE Green Books SimonAugust 26, 20250 Some green books being used as decorator items, on there way to the dust bin of history. This photo is from the...
Hiking The Sierra Nevada SimonAugust 25, 20250 "Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best." John Muir My endurance...