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Patrick Dowd has returned from Peru. Read the Peru travelogue from the beginning.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
change
Buddhists say everything is changing. They say that from observation because everything is changing. They say it as a means of comforting those suffering from current trials and tribulation. And, they say it as a means of encouraging focus on … Continue reading
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Oregon
Oregon has a lot to recommend it. I lived there for many years and it looks like I am going back there. This photo is the Upper Willamette River southeast of Eugene. The water flows from Dexter Reservoir and looks … Continue reading
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a drier Colorado
This storm cloud over Long’s Peak in the Rockies is apparently less common than it used to be. When I lived in Denver, clouds would build up over the mountains every summer day. In the late afternoon about four or … Continue reading
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Would that there…
“Would that there be you friend in the wood chipper?” Lake Melissa looks serene in this photo, but in the winter, the snow gets deep. In the movie Fargo, Frances McDormand, playing the character of police chief, Marge Gunderson, catches up … Continue reading
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ODOT 6,797
As I pulled in front of my house in Charleston on Friday, August 31, my odometer read 6,797. I had been gone since July 2, basically two months. In addition to the mileage on my car, I drove another thousand … Continue reading
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