MrJumbo Gets a Blog

Even in our technologically advanced time, we make a practice of lighting great bonfires to mark auspicious occasions. Auspicious it was (he...

There’s a poem I want to find. If I knew where it was, I could hurl a few boxes of old papers off the balcony and never worry about what I w...

I moved to where the weather’s supposed to be good, and I got blowing rain and sand . My sister moved to where it’s supposed to snow and got...

Alors! Après la réparation

Maybe these pictures will ease some of the jealousy. When I closed my front door behind me this morning and hit the bike trail, the sky was ...

As you can see, the weather was fine yesterday for sculling—or cycling—even though the mountains in the distance have been whitened by the s...

Picture two people driving up a highway, talking about the clouds they see through the windshield. Soon they have to develop a careful termi...

It rained not long ago in the high desert, so flowers were out. The mission of the day was to see a lady who wanted to talk about solar elec...

Two of my sisters are on their way down from Washington to visit California. They say they’ll be here by next month sometime. (I apologize f...

Last month I took pictures of a nearly full moon and found the best exposure (on my camera) was 1/800 second to keep the grays on the lunar ...