Zion National Park

  My impression of Zion National Park and Utah in general had always been that of a desert landscape.  But once I made my first visit that impression changed.  As you can see in the photo above of the famous Zion “Subway”, there is water and intense patches of green.  I have had one short…

Amiens Cathedral

My first post on Cathedrals has to be of the great cathedral in Amiens France.  I have visited the Cathedral 4 times in my life: 1961, 1998, 2002, 2015.  The first visit really doesn’t count as I was around 3 years old and living in Europe with my parents as my father was in the…

Tree Seedlings

Tree Seedlings March 2018 Over the last 8 – 9 years I have been intensively planting tree seedlings in our 25 acre forest in Mantorville Minnesota.  Most of the time I have purchased the seedlings from various sources.  When we first moved to this location in 1992 I planted maybe 100 or so Pine, Spruce,…