Book Reading List - 2018

• Blue Highways: A Journey into America - Author: William Least Heat-Moon
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Author: Daniel James Brown
• Sometimes a Great Notion - Author: Ken Kesey
• Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics - Author: Dan Harris
• Fear – Trump in the Whitehouse - Author: Bob Woodward
• Our Revolution - Author: Bernie Sanders
• Call of the Wild - Author: Jack London
• Grant - Author: Ron Chernow
• Get Well Soon - History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them - Author: Jennifer Wright
• A Little History of the World - Author: E.H. Gombrich
• Medium Raw - A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook - Author: Anthony Bourdain
• How to Change Your Mind - What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Author: Michael Pollan
• A Higher Loyalty - Truth, Lies, and Leadership - Author: James Comey
• The Soul of America - Author: Jon Meacham
• Silent Spring - Author: Rachel Carson
• Blood and Thunder - An Epic of the American West - Author: Hampton Sides
• American Serengeti - The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains - Author: Dan Flores
• Leonardo Da Vinci - Author: Walter Isaacson
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House - Author: Michael Wolff
• A Little History of Religion - Author: Richard Holloway

Glaedelig Jul og Dejligt Nytar! - Danish Haiku

Vi ønsker jer alle

en rigtig Glaedelig Jul
og dejligt nytar!

Wishing one and all

a very Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!

Solstice To-Do-List - Haiku

Solstice to-do-list ~

Dance naked in the moonlight ~

Pagan rituals

Pumpkin Post-Mortem - Haiku

Fall is almost gone

Pumpkin needs a body bag

I believe I'm next

Earth Day - Haiku

Be kind to the earth ~

It's the only one we have ~

Earth Day every day

Road Trip - Jewell Meadows WIldlife Area

Took a short detour on our way back from the coast and stopped at the Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area. Estimate we saw around 40 Roosevelt Elk grazing in the open meadows. The drive north from Hwy 26 on Hwy 103 is beautiful and the Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area is very pituresque and well worth the detour.

Roosevelt Elk at Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area, Oregon

Roosevelt Elk at Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area, Oregon

Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area is located in the Oregon Coast Range Mountains, in the northwestern part of the state. The wildlife area was established in 1969, with an initial purchase of 183 acres. It now encompasses 1,114 acres. The wildlife area’s purpose is to protect and enhance habitat to benefit native wildlife species, to reduce wildlife damage to adjacent properties, and to provide the public with an opportunity to observe wildlife in a natural setting.

The 2,940-acre state wildlife area has been offering them a winter home since 1969. Elk are provided a supplementary diet by the state fish and wildlife service, so it gives them incentive to stick around until things green up in the spring. The area is off limits to hunters, so the elk are safe from human intrusion.

Sources:
ODFW website
ODFW Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area Brochure
Oregon Live Website

New Years Resolution - Haiku

Here's to a New Years

Resolution I can keep

Try to drink more beer