I met a British lady on the trail at Whitewater Falls. We spoke because she complimented my patience with her in taking photos of the thing,...

Lots of good motorcycle weather lately. A rare Christmas present! It’s ending soon; next week is going to have weather in the teens again.  ...

Whitewater Falls, as viewed from ~100 yards inside South Carolina. The same waterfall about 100 yards back inside North Carolina. Lake Jocas...

May God grant you all a fine feast and a peaceful celebration on this most glorious of days. Thank you for being my friends and companions, ...

UPDATE: Told you (see comments to the post below this one):

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An early gift I received this year was The Lodge [Cast Iron Company] Book of Dutch Oven Cooking . It's a very thoughtfully constructed ...

The discussion of the war crime of aggression has been long; it is still perhaps of interest. I’m going to post a series of photographs of p...

AVI linked an interesting discussion of the forces pulling young people away from marriage. The study attempts balance, but I think it is ...

In a discussion of 'America's art of war,' historian VDH notes :  [T]hroughout the American Revolution, Patriots exhibited a sin...

In nearby Canada, allegedly soon to be the 51st state, the 2nd Amendment doesn't yet apply .  I did see someone comment the other day: ...

The Winter Solstice was today; we are in winter true from about ten o'clock in the morning local time. Christmas is still a little ways ...

Once again Blogger has been moving comments from regulars to the Spam folder. Eric Hines alerted me to the matter, and I found that a number...

Separated from her family and lost since Hurricane Helene, local cat Gabby was reunited with her family thanks to a microchip. 

I told you it was stolen way back when  (as did Rasmussen , and 2022 didn't look clean either). At least the documentation is finally f...

The field that likes to call itself "international law" has rules that are functionally guidelines ignored by the powerful. It has...

In my neighbor's custody case, mom, dad, and grandma have all signed an agreed order giving custody to grandma and arranging for the min...

Reportedly the US military is about to make a major adjustment to the Combatant Command structure, one that aligns with the Trump administr...