Background image: Frozen Klamath Lake in Oregon.
Newsletter Archive
I began sending photo-illustrated newsletters to friends and family on a 2007 trip to Italy. Now I create them at Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July as well as other times when the spirit moves me, such as on a vacation trip or a hike. Creating the newsletters helps vent my writing obsession, reignited my love of photography and taught me a lot about what Microsoft Word can do.
Christmas
An annual newsletter occasion since 2009. It's become my Christmas card.
Season's Greetings
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When the snow lay round about ...
Stockings were hung ...
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A Sierra Holiday
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My Lord! What A Morning
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For everything there is a season
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James Taylor country
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Homes for the holidays 1
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Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
Home for the holidays
See, amid the winter's snow
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Season's Greetings
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Room at the Inn
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The weather outside is frightful
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'Tis the Season
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Homes for the holidays 2
2022 Visitors From Norway
Our friends take advantage of cheap plane tickets and fall school break to visit.
10-6/7-22 California Dreamin'
Welcome to America
10-10/11-22 California Dreamin'
"Huge Trees"
10-8/9-22 California Dreamin'
Hovden Cannery
10-12/16-22 California Dreamin'
Disneyland!
2021 Cross-Country Trip
A summer road trip with my sister along the Lewis and Clark Trail.
7-7-21 Voyage of Discovery
7-9-21 Voyage of Discovery
"Manifest Destiny"
7-11-21 Voyage of Discovery
Why it's called Yellowstone
7-13-21 Voyage of Discovery
On the reservation
7-15-21 Voyage of Discovery
Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, Meacham, Oregon
7-19-21 Epilogue
Winfield Scott Moak
Saint Louis in Lewis & Clark's time
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Homesteading
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Sacagawea, enigmas and history
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Learning our lesson
2019 Norway Trip
A winter trip along coastal Norway including crossing the Arctic Circle.
2-12-19 Norge News
Strange Words, Familiar Cadences
2-14-19 Norge News
63° N
2-17-19 Norge News
End of the Earth
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2-21-19 Norge News
The Sound of Silence
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2-25-19 Norge News
It's Oh So Nice in Åsa
2017 Europe Trip
Taking our son to Europe for his first intercontinental visit.
2017 Europe Trip
Taking our son to Europe for his first intercontinental visit.
Fancy Meetin' You 'ere
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Warm Friends in Cold Places
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The Son King & His Mom
Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet
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France From A Different Angle
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Le Chat à Grande Vitesse
North Carolina
Trips to visit family and friends. There's quite a bit of overlap between this and the Family section below.
10-18-09 Hollerin' from Hamlet
Back for a North Carolina visit
10-21-09 Smoke Signals
Smoky Mountain Morning
2-18-13 The Biltmore Bugle
North Carolina's Downton Abbey
2-23-13 The Hamlet News-Messenger Together again, naturally
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10-22-16 The Asheville Citizen-Times
Crossing the line
10-18-09 Hollerin' from Hamlet
Back for a North Carolina visit
10-21-09 Smoke Signals
Smoky Mountain Morning
2-18-13 The Biltmore Bugle
North Carolina's Downton Abbey
2-23-13 The Hamlet News-Messenger Together again, naturally
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10-22-16 The Asheville Citizen-Times
Crossing the line
10-19-09 Hollerin' from Hamlet
Yes, Thomas Wolfe, you can go home again
Books, railroads and a little snow
Dyed in the Wool Blue
Seeking Safe Harbor
Trains
The way I like to travel.
Why I like waking up on the train
Piercing the Faux French Facade
A Capital Idea
Family
Reunions, trips, events. More family-oriented newsletters are in the North Carolina section above.
6-30-08 Julie, Lee & Thomas' California Adventure
Big trees, big feast, big family
7-5-08 Julie, Lee & Thomas' California Adventure Tahoe trek closes reunion trip
Sierra Springtime
3-22-10 The Squaw Valley Squawk
Flattery Works
It's nifty turning 60
Hood-winked
On the road to St. Elsewhere
Big Doin's at Big Sur
Ruler(s) of the Ranch
Magic Moments
I Do
Before ... And After
Rub of the Green
Beautiful Downtown Burbank
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Mayberry Makeover
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Dawn of a New Age
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The expansion franchise
7-3-08 Julie, Lee & Thomas' California Adventure
Bay Area welcomes visitors with fog, baseball
1-11-09 The Seattle Scuttlebutt
Sleepless in Seattle
Stepping back in time
Granite Grandeur
Gorging ourselves
Fightin' the Big C
The house that Barry Built
Ready for my close-up, Ms. DeMille
Waking up in North Carolina
A time to Heal
Honeymoon Sweet
Surf City USA
City of Angels
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I will fight no more forever
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11-29-16 Los Angeles Daily News
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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Snowy peaks
Hiking
Emily's and my favorite pasttime together. There are more hikes in the Fourth of July section below.
7-10-09 The Lassen Log
A hike to hell and back
Winter at last
4 words to describe our Yosemite day
Hot Fudge Mundae
A Walk Back to the Ice Age
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Winter of Storms
5-27-10 The Valley Voice
Climbing to the brink
An Arresting Arrete
Hiking into the Dead Zone
Friends Encountered on the Trail
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As Green As It Gets
Fourth of July
This annual newsletter usually focuses on a national park. There are hikes here not listed in the section above.
7-9-09 The Lassen Log
'Cause it's there
A walk in the park
Happy Fourth of July
Happy Fourth of July
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Happy Fourth of July
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Happy Fourth of July
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El Condor Pasa
6-30-10 The Sequoia Squawk
Happy Fourth of July
Happy Fourth of July
Happy Fourth of July
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Happy Fourth of July
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Ghost Towns in the Sky
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Happy Fourth of July
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Happy Fourth of July
New Year's
This newsletter, which isn't quite annual yet, usually focuses on the California coast.
12-29-09 Holiday Herald
Winter finally settles in
Last to the New Year Party
And the sky is gray
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Bridges of the Bay
12-28-11 The Point Lobos Log
Happy New Year
First Light
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I've been for a walk on a winter's day ...
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Its Beach sunset
2007 Italy trip
The start of a mighty publishing franchise.
9-25-07 The Venezia Voice
Long night's flight to Venice lands weary travelers in Italia
Bellagio!!!
Some serious railroadin'
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Arrivederci, Roma. Buongiorno, Siena.
Italians built monument to themselves in marble
9-26-07 The Vicenza Credenza
Army dedicates memorial garden to Nan's mom
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Cruise to Colico
The glory that was Rome & the bald spot on the dome
Driving across Tuscany, hill town to hill town
Miscellaneous
Stuff that doesn't fit in the other boxes.
8-15-10 The Fog Town Crier
Just Chillin'
Springtime in the land of milk and honey
Ouch!
Draining the tub
Wearin' o' the Green
11-26-15 The Thanksgiving Tribune
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
The Week Begins
How the Sausage Gets Made
The Agony of Defeat
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How a drought ends
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4-13-22 The Coastal Chronicle 1
Pacific Coast Winter
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A dark and stormy forecast
8-27-11 The CyberRays Slate
From one champ to another
I'm a Tar Heel born ...
A White Lie
The Day the Rain Came
4-17-15 The Silicon Valley Sun
American Exceptionalism
11-28-15 The Thanksgiving Tribune
Trains, Planes & Automobiles
How Stadiums Grow Up To Be Super Bowls
Travel Tips for the Big Game
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Grace Under Pressure
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3-15-20 The Coronavirus Chronicle
These Art Times That Try Our Souls
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4-13-22 The Coastal Chronicle 2
Life among brutes