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It clouds the mind.
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Built in 1932 to by pass a tunnel that had collapsed in an earthquake (located to the right, out of the frame) the trestle at Goat Canyon in the Carrizo Gorge is over 180 feet high and at more than 600 feet long, it was the largest non-liner wooden bridge in the United States.
Currently, it is still the second longest wooden bridge in the U.S. and after the line was embargoed in 2008, it has been in a state of disrepair.
In the past there has been plans to get the line running again, but nothing has panned out so far, and the latest attempt is beginning to look like an investment scam gone bad.
Getting to the trestle involves at 14 mile round trip hike through Anza Borego State Park, located in the Sonoran Desert about 160 miles east of San Diego near El Centro California.
The hike itself involves mountainous terrain that is inhabited by rattle snakes, big horn sheep, coyotes, mountain lions and the famous jumping cholla cactus (personally, I think the cactus is the worse than the snakes).
Additionally, it is a hike that should be undertaken only in the winter months since summertime temperatures at the site average in the 100’s from May to October.
Further, there is no running water, no roads to the outside world, and no cell service in the gorge, so if something happens, you and your traveling companions are on your own.
Carrizo Gorge Railway - Goat Canyon - MP 102.29.
Carrizo Gorge - San Diego County, California.
(March 1, 2015)
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Justifying Perceptions.
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Steve.D.Hammond.
Personal Values (1952) depicts a bedroom framed by cloud-filled walls, with an oversized comb and shaving brush dwarfing the furniture on which they rest. This alteration of scale by enlarging daily objects was often used by Belgian surrealist artist, Rene Magritte (1898-1967). The method, based on the “disturbing objects” theory extolled by surrealist Paul Nougé (1895-1967), was one of the ways to unhinge the spectator, causing a poetic shock and uneasiness in front of intentional surreality. Magritte became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop, minimalist and conceptual art.
This original Magritte painting was seen and photographed at San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in an exhibit entitled 'Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season'.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
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10 Things About Me
1. I’m extremely claustrophobic. I could never be an astronaut or cave explorer. I can’t even be strapped into a Disney ride.
2. I took ballet for 10 years. I even made it to point. (Toe shoes)
3. I toured a couple of islands with a small jazz dance troupe while attending BYU Hawaii.
4. My company went from a single employee (me) publishing one tiny niche publication to 40 employees producing 30 art and crafting magazine titles.
5. I’m uncomfortable being in the limelight. I’d rather be behind the scenes, as long as people are aware of my accomplishments.
6. I wish I had had more than one child. My son would have made a wonderful big brother.
7. I love working with teens. I'm currently teaching an art journaling class to at-risk teens.
8. I miss living in a small town. I grew up in Rupert, Idaho and miss the “bigness” of small events.
9. I absolutely love romantic comedies, but also count scary movies like Alien and Event Horizon among my favorites.
10. I’m wondering if my new obsession (and it truly is an obsession) with photography and Flickr will diminish over time so that I can actually get the laundry done and groceries bought. Is there an intervention program for Flickr addiction?
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Morton Arboretum in Spring of 1998
Shot on Fujichrome Astia 100 Slide Film with a Pentax K1000. Scanned with adjustments made in Photoshop.
Isn't she a beauty? No, not the photo, this red-backed spider, Latrodectus hasselti. The photo is rubbish. What? Did you expect something better when I was lying on my back and peering up into a control box filled with valves, pipes, filters, wires, solenoids and three messy red-backed spiders. Think yourself lucky that I did this well!
We are all born lucky. The odds against our conception, birth, and survival to adulthood are astronomical. But we did, so let's get on with it.
How many times have I heard: "But you live so far away…couldn't you come here"? Yes, but it's just as far for me, and if you're whining like that, what motivation are you offering? Then there's the "Oh, no you have so many 'poisonous' things out to kill me". The latter might have a grain of truth. Could it be your whining that's motivating that emotion? I don't condone such thoughts, by the way, and we can explore that, if you like.
We have sharks: great white, tiger, bull. All can give you a nasty nip. Consider this: they are cosmopolitan species, not unique to this Great South Land. Could it be the habit of popping into the sparkling warm waters on golden sandy beaches that puts bite-sized temptation in their fishy way more frequently that if the water is murky, brown and frigid? No one will force you to come here and enjoy yourself. That's up to you.
Besides, horses, bees, domestic dogs and lightning kill more people than sharks. It's got something to do with their disinclination to come ashore for a snack. There are no extant predators that fill that role. No wolves, tigers, lions or bears. Okay, there are drop bears. You might get a concussion, a compression fracture of your vertebrae, or a nasty fright. I haven't seen one for a while. You should be safe.
Snakes? Arguably the most dangerous snake in the World is the eastern brown snake. Sea snakes are pretty bad too. But because you've decided to avoid the water, well, stop worrying about them. I've been struck at multiple times by brown snakes. Not once has any of them connected. I wouldn't be writing this if they had; possibly. One bit Bessie outside my door. With a bit of help, she lived. Dangerous? I guess. But you don't see one every day, just occasionally, and usually as they are slithering about on some mission involving a rodent they can swallow. Never has one hunted me for food, or attempted to swallow me. Don't think you can escape by going into the water. They are good swimmers too. Instead, stand still and wait till they go away.
Crocodiles, blue ringed octopus and stingers? See shark, above. Yes you might be stalked by a saltwater crocodile on land, if you are that clumsy that you repeat habitual behaviours, day after day, in the same place, and the salty is hungry. They can wait for you to do something dumb. The slow metabolism that enables that patience also means you just need to go somewhere cooler to avoid them. Oh, and yes, as you are already avoiding water: somewhere cold.
Mass casualty events? There aren't any active volcanoes anywhere you'd know. Ever heard of, err Heard Island? No, I guessed that. If you rank those that have happened, the massacre of our continent's original human inhabitants tops the list; multiple times. Ship wrecks are up there, and hostile foreign aggression, once; other times, not so much. The toll against POW escapees was bigger. Some floods have been deadly, and there's one nasty earthquake that hit a built-up area. That was ugly, and a bridge collapsed when a commuter train hit a bridge stanchion. A family member attended in an official capacity. That left many scars.
Our biggest civilian incident was a deranged individual with a semi-automatic weapon in 1996. Those weapons are banned now. And recently, there was another incident. In between? Nothing on the scale that wears the label mass casualty. Why? You might have to visit to understand that, and take note of the policy and practice which limits the likelihood of these things.
Here's some numbers about mass casualties. You watch the news. You've already seen stuff around the world. Here, we've had two events in 29 years. Every loss was someone, a person of equal value. They worked, paid taxes, studied, had aspirations, were part of the economy and society. We mourn them all. Just in 2025, this tragic year, there has been one event too many in a country of around 27 million lives. One per capita: 1/27,000,000. In a socially comparable country, there has been a mass casualty frequency of 1/875,000 people. Where would you feel safer? Thirty one times safer?
Back with the wildlife, we also have the nastiest venomous spider in the World. This isn't it. The Sydney Funnel-web is endemic to the sandstone country of the Sydney Basin. That's a big area! Yet almost as many people have seen a drop bear as has encountered one of these spiders. They can kill you, as sure as a drop bear can. I'd rather take my chances with the spider. The last verified death by envenomation by a red-backed spider was in 1956. They are so timid, they'll roll up and play dead if you poke them. I poked this one, and the other female here in this control box too. The male ran off somewhere; such is their bravado. I picked both of those girls up and took them away where I could not harm them, and let them go. My greatest discomfort was negotiating the return to vertical after lying supine to get this picture!
Perception and reality can be divergent.