Giraffe calf
Giraffe family in the Hogle Zoo, Utah (June 2025)
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Happy Sunday
Opposite side view of Ribe Cathedral
GSBG @ 2022 Northwest String Summit
Greensky Bluegrass @ final Northwest String Summit (Oregon)
The next Hawaiian island in the making?
Humpback whale spouting in the Pailolo Channel (December 2022)
No, just one of the many whales we saw from Lipoa Point on Maui. They didn’t do anything super spectacular on this day. I think they were just moving on through. That’s Molokai in the distance.
Pika
Silver Lake to Twin Lake Loop Trail (Utah)
The morning mountain air was so clear it felt like breathing in shards of light. On the slope above Brighton, Utah, a tiny figure emerged from the scree — a pika, perched atop one of the many rocks in what could have been a prior avalanche. The pika twitched its whiskers, then darted — fast and fluid — into a crevice again, disappearing like a whisper. I lowered the camera and sighed. In the long silence that followed, every stone seemed full of stories, every shadow alive. I walked away slowly, leaving the mountain its solitude, carrying in memory not just the image but the spirit of that small being, perched between earth and sky.
Also, this rodent near Brighton is unrelated to the much more electric, far-more-famous, Japanese pikachu.
Medieval Denmark
Peder Dovns Slippe (from Sortebrødregade) in Ribe, Denmark
There probably isn’t anything in this photo that goes back to medieval times (until 1500), but this area was active then. Fires, etc. have caused buildings to be freshened over the years, but most buildings in this part of town are from the 17th–19th century.
The “church” in the background is St. Catherine’s Priory which was a Catholic monastery from the 13th to the 16th century before the Danes got tired of the Catholic Church always asking for more money, time, etc. In 1918, Sankt Kathrine Kloster was restored to its former appearance.