Category: Ectachrome

Foggy Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2025

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day,  March 17, 2025, a foggy  and rainy day at  the famous  ancient Bronze Age Dun Aengus (Anglicized) fort on the Isle of Aran, County Galway,  Ireland. I visited Dún Aonghasa  (Irish)   during a trip to Ireland in the spring of 1978.  Ancestry says I am 16% Irish.

Remembering my visit to Florence, Oregon, which inspired the novel Dune

August 7, 2020

It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]