This morning we hiked four miles on the String Lake hike inside Grand Teton National Park…
A forest fire burned this area in 1999.
We hiked the 4-mile Swan Lake trail this morning. This is what it looks like…
Hiking along Jackson Lake in the morning.
The bluffs at Fort Robinson, Crawford, Nebraska. Crazy Horse was killed at the fort.
This is our 6th time to be at National Teton National Park… We brought our kids here 5 times.
Jennifer looks out on the Teton Range from Jackson Lake Lodge
This is off the beaten path, but what a beautiful place, about 25 miles west of Chadron, Nebraska, which is about 8 hours NW of Omaha. This is our 5th or 6th time here. Our kids loved this place back in the mid-1990s. Tonight we’re staying in the brick barracks that were built in 1909. We just finished our buffalo steaks and baked potatoes.
Looking out on the buttes north of Fort Robinson
The 100th meridian runs north/south through the middle of Nebraska, where the United States divides east from west. It shows.
Just east of Chadron, Nebraska
This vine volunteered in my garden this spring. I hoped it might be that delicious variety of cucumber I grew last year. Alas, it is fruit of the squirrels, who planted my fall pumpkin without even trying. It likes the heat. It may cover my entire yard by the time I get home in August.
PhD Comics explanation of Higgs boson. The animation helps me understand the vocabulary. If you already know about bottom quarks and their ilk, you might like this anyway.
Two is the number. Roy Peter Clark is on to something. The “unified theory of writing”combines science and words in a way that strikes me as just right. http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/writing-tools/180084/can-we-figure-out-a-unified-theory-of-writing/
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