The Binker Files: Nevada Hoe

Photo Albums

Quotes

Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand. - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Education
"Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education." -David Polis
"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one becomes to feeling ill... Thus if one just keeps walking, everything will be all right." -Soren Kierckgaard
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard

July 13, 2008

Nevada Hoe

I picked up my own $99 Nikon Coolpix camera today, a hoe if you will, so that I can begin sharing my story with the folks back east. Here are the first few shots:

These sunflowers were growing across the street from where I was having dinner with some work friends. Lately, the sky here almost always looks like this in the evenings. Usually it's blowing dust, but this haze is from the fires burning in northern California.

Somewhere out in Grass Valley...the hot, dry and dusty high-desert around Winnemucca.

This picture is of the Sonoma Mountains, a small range just south of town. As you can see there are only a few trees, although aspen glades exist at higher elevations where water flows year-round.