Here's a Kirlian photograph of some Chia seeds (and obviously a finger tip Thanks to Lani R. for giving me an excuse to dig out my old homebrew electronics (more like Rube Goldberg actually but it works) plus a kit from Edmund Scientific that comprises my funky, unique Kirlian photo setup.

I had the pleasure of taking my brother-in-law John and two nephews (Johnny and David) to Crater Lake National Park today. Here are a few photos du jour The French Onion soup and the exquisite colors of blue on the water were a couple of the highlights we enjoyed. As you can see, John is still recovering from a wild kangaroo ride (or something like that) from a recent trip down under.

Nancy & I had a fine stroll along the Rogue River yesterday at Touvelle State Park, hobnobbing with the ducks, osprey, and lots of fluffy cottonwood seeds adrift in the air. Here's a photo she took of me on an oak limb.

A sample of the profusion of little wildflowers blanketing Upper Table Rock (just north of Medford, Oregon) on this morning's hike.

Today we decided to go for a Sunday midwinter drive in the Rogue Valley to one of our favorite breakfast spots, the Breadboard in Ashland, followed by a leisurely meander through the back roads around Phoenix & Talent, taking pictures of orchard signs and enjoying the unseasonably pleasant day. Here's a snap of some cattails, spreading their wispy genetics across the terrain... a lovely morning!

Great synchronicity; I got an email from a new friend (here is Lisa's blog) about her experience with orbs, and I just got back from a superb lecture this evening sponsored by RVML on crop circles by world expert Nancy Talbott. In addition to her first rate scientific plant and soil science research, she has an impressive amount of what's becoming known as "orb photos". There is going to be a Prophet's Conference on the orbs soon; I imagine it will be fascinating!

You can find a selection of some of my favorite photographs here... These include photos from New Zealand, Costa Rica, Egypt, the Sierra Nevadas in California, and elsewhere... as well as Kirlian photography & of course sacred geometry art and my POV-Ray interpretations of John Martineau's brilliant solar system geometric models from A Little Book of Coincidence. I've enjoyed shutterbugging since high school and see it as a means of sharing the inspirations from the awesome mystery and majesty of nature in a way that speaks soul-to-soul, for much the same reasons that I have been impelled to learn about what is now referred to as "sacred geometry" since my adolescent days as well.