Deficient wipers

photo - Lexey Swall-Bobay

My wipers went out on me on the drive home the other day, not a good thing when living in Florida. So I had to sit on the side of the road until the rain let up, people are in a hurry no matter how much rain on a Friday, not to mention a Friday before Labor Day weekend. Later that night I joined some of the NDN crew out on a light painting mission, the bugs were bad so we spent the time in the car.

Into the rain

Still we drive...

The Nature Conservancy Magazine - Fire School Spread

The Nature Conservancy Magazine asked for my contribution a couple months ago to a story they were doing on the Prescribed Fire Training Center (Tallahassee, FL). The article has now been completed and I would like to share it with you. I will be receiving some copies of the magazine to share with family and a few friends but the online version is pretty nice as well.

So check it out if you like.

The Nature Conservancy - Fire School

Southern end of Harney County

I thought I better share some of the southern end of the area where I grew up in Eastern Oregon. I will post a few photos here, but make sure you check out the gallery for the rest.

Fish Lake


Looking down on the eastern side of Steens Mountain.


Kiger Gorge overlook





Malheur Cave

SEAT drop video

Just playing around with some of my photo sequences, here's the photos of one of the SEAT drops.

Harney County, OR

Lot's of things to see here, and with us leaving soon we better check them out now. We took a tour of Diamond and Crane along the way we stopped at the Round Barn, and stopped at Bill Thew's shop.

Riddle Mt. in the background.




Teacher and student still.


Some of Bill's checkered flags.


More photos added to the gallery.

Air show

Sometimes you can get people in the way of the fire, so you have to call in air tankers.

A single engine air tanker (SEAT)


A heavy air tanker