Busted....

Among a certain group of poets I know, they will immediately become self-actualized upon viewing this photo. Ah the joys of a certain validation!

Bask in your moment, dear poets. It is fleeting.

More worrisome? I don't know who took this. It landed in my photo album, post download.

I was caught.

So if you are going to be corrupted, forever ruined in a stanza, a line, or in free form, I can't imagine a better wordsmith to take me down.

Usher. By B H Fairchild. Coming to a non fiction essayist near you, soon.

It's just a stage. Short term.

Next week, I take on Cormac McCarthy....

Where I'd Like To Be....

For a Holiday....

Here we go....Again...

Winter Storm Warning:

Issued by The National Weather Service
Spokane, WA
9:05 am PDT, Wed., Oct. 28, 2009

... WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...

A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING.

TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF WET SNOW ARE POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHERN VALLEYS ON THURSDAY. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR FIVE TO TEN INCHES OF SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER. SNOW LEVELS WILL RISE FROM THE VALLEYS TO THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... CHANGING THE SNOW TO RAIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.

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THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... SANDPOINT... RATHDRUM... BONNERS FERRY... PRIEST RIVER... SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN ROAD... COLVILLE... DEER PARK... CHEWELAH... NEWPORT... KETTLE FALLS... SPRINGDALE-HUNTERS ROAD... ORIN-RICE ROAD... FLOWERY TRAIL ROAD... REPUBLIC... INCHELIUM... WAUCONDA... CHESAW ROAD... HIGHWAY 20 WAUCONDA SUMMIT... BOULDER CREEK ROAD... SHERMAN PASS... LEAVENWORTH... MAZAMA... TWISP... WINTHROP... STEHEKIN... CONCONULLY... BLEWETT PASS... LOUP LOUP PASS... OMAK... OKANOGAN... BREWSTER... BRIDGEPORT... OROVILLE... NESPELEM... DISAUTEL PASS.

More Information
... FIRST SIGNIFICANT SNOW POSSIBLE THURSDAY...

.A MOIST WARM FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACROSS THE EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO ON THURSDAY. LOW LEVEL COLD AIR WILL BE SLOW TO ERODE... LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL OF SIGNIFICANT EARLY SEASON SNOW IN THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS NORTH OF WENATCHEE TO COEUR D'ALENE THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING.

Ambercrombie Mountain.

Someone had a craving for huckleberrys. And bear encounters. And cougar sightings. And taking pictures....Just saying, someone did have that once....

Huckleberry's.

Looking across Washington...Over Idaho and into Montana....

What lightning can do to a tree....Man has viagra...Nature has....spark.

The crew from the hike up...the four of us nearly made it to the summit...about 7300 feet....but it was getting dark, a kid had been attacked the day before by a cougar on the same mountain....and oh there was that issue of the bears....My father turns 75 next month. Pretty amazing eh?

Us Anderson's (and the Swim's too) we're not afraid of a little living...even at 75...

Boys in Babeland....

So yeah, I run around with some pretty special folks....Here's a couple random shots from the dog days of well, you know...Indian Summer....