"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
Saturday: early morning bike ride followed by a visit to our local coffee shop. Weekly yard chores. Worked on my other blog, fixing old entries that got screwed up when I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (this blog, by the way, has been edited and is back up to speed). Went to the […]
The limitations of our little digital camera are becoming apparent. We need more megapixels, more telephoto, more cowbell! But I did catch two of our more elusive visitors today. The two small birds on the left are house sparrows. Whenever I fill the bird feeder pigeons, house finches, and quail come to visit, but every now and then […]
These days I’m running the gauntlet of writers and publishers. Does running the gauntlet make you cringe? God, it does me. But not the writers and publishers of One Bullet Away and Cobra II: the Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. In the first, which I recently finished, the writer runs the gauntlet four […]
Driving around Tucson, I see things that make me think. I thought I’d share some of them with you. This is a crazy guy’s house. He lives in what would be, if it weren’t for him, a nice neighborhood. According to one homeowner I talked to, city police won’t cite the fellow because the subdivision is county, […]
Have I mentioned that my wife works part time at a local gun shop? Well, she does, and that’s how we came to be invited to an Arizona Friends of the National Rifle Association auction and banquet. One of the speakers was Scott O’Grady, the USAF Reserve F-16 pilot who was shot down over Bosnia in […]
For weeks now I’ve been getting messages from WordPress, asking me to upgrade to the latest version of their weblogging program. I finally succumbed, and now I have hundreds of posts and pages with uncommanded typographical symbols mixed in with the text, like this: So I have a question: don’t NBC and Today have some degree […]
Every Fourth of July the residents of Sunnywood Estates gather for a parade. We supplied a large contingent of marchers: Donna and I, our son Gregory with his wife Beth and children Taylor and Quentin, and our friends Angie, Darrell, Chris, and Mary Anne. Not all the Woodfords were here. Polly was able to come […]
I’ve been trying to photograph a pair of Gila Woodpeckers and a Thrasher, but they’re skittish. Whenever I reach for the camera, they see the motion — I’m on the other side of a window and only a few feet away — and fly away. Turns out the female Gila Woodpecker is a little less […]