LA en vie

California, here I come!

The other side of the world from Paris (but the same cold, rainy weather, to make me feel at home).

On the way

I don't understand people who don't look out the window on planes....

Fields of northern France in rare snow, pylons in the mist

White cliffs of Dover from the air

The Thames estuary and the Isle of Thanet, where Hengest and Horsa lived before the Saxon invasion of Britain, more than 1500 years ago

Front range of the Rockies near Kalispell, Montana and Glacier National Park

Deep canyon in the Great Basin, from 35,000 feet up

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, in the center of the photo

Look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet

Here from this mountain shore, headland beyond stormy headland
plunging like dolphins through the blue sea-smoke
into pale sea — look west at the hill of water: it is half the planet:
this dome, this half-globe, this bulging
eyeball of water, arched over to Asia,
Australia and white Antarctica: those are the eyelids that never close;
this is the staring unsleeping
Eye of the earth; and what it watches is not our wars.

    --Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), in "The Eye"

Back in the U.S.A.

I'm not here yet. Hello, though.