What's new?

Actually, most of the website is new. It has a whole new look and feel, improved functionality and new photos.

Travel blog (the electronic travelogue)--Now that I am traveling a lot, I wanted the capability to easily update my website from anywhere. I don't anticipate lugging my PC, even my laptop on international trips. Blogger is a reasonable solution; I signed up for their service and modified one of their templates. Now I can update my posts via their dashboard or by eMail. If I can get to a computer with Internet and USB access, I can upload photos.

The new photo albums are from Newfoundland. You can see them on Flickr. Dawn and I spent a month on the island during September. We went to visit our friends, Don and Diane. My Mom, Pat, joined us for two weeks. Newfoundland is big--bigger than California or Texas. We spent a week in the southeast corner at St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula, a week in Trinity, and a week on the western part of the island at a national park, Gros Morne. We liked the week in Trinity so much, we returned there for the fourth week. There are four albums with eight photos each. The first, Newfoundland--contains photos of us, the house we rented in Trinity and views of St. Johns, St. Philips and Trinity.

Newfoundland Scenics--I took hundreds of scenic photos. Contains photos of hurricane Florence. Oddly enough, Florence moved from the Carribean due north, missing the east coast of the US (the States) and nailing Newfoundland. Look at the two pictures of the rocks standing like fingers reaching to the sky. Notice the pleasant, blue, amost turquoise ocean in one and the dark, frothy surge in the other. The lighthouse is Bonavista. The cod are drying on "flakes."

Newfoundland GrosMorne--Way back, there was one supercontinent including Europe, Africa and North America. Over geological time, the continents drifted apart and colllided back together. Gros Morne National Park contains clear evidence of these upheavals. The pictures of the "pond" (a landlocked fjord) show the roots of mountains, the glistening tan rocks are from the earth's mantle, and the stratified rocks show the history of geological time.


Newfoundland Wildlife--Some macrophotography of plants, a caribou and a fine art sea gull. The blueberries were in season while we were there. Dawn cooked many muffins and pies. For awhile, we were eating pie two to three times per day; it was delicious.