Le Monde Tourne

Went to downtown Golden to go look at the lights with some family, and decided it was a B&W kind of night.

I've been working to build out a side business building mechanical watches.

Up front: this is a post about the effects of the latest (as of the time of this writing) act of political violence in America.

Thanks, Mom, for catching a typo!

Photo by Eugene Chystiakov / Unsplash I'm starting a new writing project at the bequest of some friends: explaining psychological operations and influence operations with the goal of helping people identify, understand, and counter the myriad influence op…

Like all true mountain-lovers, she got altitude sickness if she spent too long at sea-level. – Robert Macfarlane, speaking of Nan Shepherd introducing her book The Living Mountain.

I spent the weekend reading and writing while watching some friends' dog.

After taking some photos with the pens and notebook, I wanted to try composing a thematic photo - and also wanted to evaluate some new photography software.

Partly as a result of doing more writing lately, leading to a weekend of cleaning and re-inking many of my pens, and partly a result of importing old photography posts, I got the itch to do some creative photography with my pens.

The world is complicated, and full of grey areas.

I went to Emigrant Wilderness with a fellow TSLer; we were planning on camping near the trailhead Friday and Saturday night, day hiking into the wilderness on Saturday to Chewing Gum Lake.

Over in my TSL class, there’s a joke going around.

I picked up a pair of GORUCK's MACV-1 jungle boots about three weeks ago, just before we went into the shelter-in-place.

Some of you may have forgotten about this newsletter - I know I did.

The Crystal Ridge as seen from Pyramid Peak.