Living Rootless

  Meaher State Park Campground, Alabama. View from site 7. July 2021.  July 2021 A pink rosé sunrise clung to the cottony clouds when I aro...

  Wishing tree at Orange Street Pier. Fairhope, Alabama. July 2021. As part of my due diligence in scoping out my next tourist-in-residency,...

    Masks preferred sign, Ben May Library. Mobile, Alabama. July 2021. When I set my Maps to Birmingham back in summer 2020, I set it for a...

  Rain over the Sacramento Mountains. Alamogordo, New Mexico. July 2013.    July 2021 What I wrote to friend Travis ( here and here ):   Wh...

  Empty home, full words. Jefferson City, Missouri. July 2021.   They don't live here anymore, whomever they are, were.  But one of them...

En route from Birmingham to Missouri, I stopped at a motel near Bells, Tennessee, for the night. Highway 20.     No-star motel, Highway 20, ...

    Harriet, ER nurse during COVID. Artist: Tom Croft . Early July 2021. I left Birmingham on Wednesday, June 30, bound for central Missouri...

  Mockingbird by Andy Morffew .   Mockingbirds may be my muse.  (Or maybe I just like that alliteration.)  The singing of birds br...

  Fans in Rustavi, Caucasus Georgia. June 2012. June 2021   I don't have AC in my Birmingham apartment, which is an interesting state of...

  Museum and Tourist's Center list of Important Dates in history of Washington, Louisiana. March 2015. I'm in Birmingham, Alabama. J...

  Internet cafe, Vakhtangisi, Caucasus Georgia.March 2012.   Stuff has happened in the last 10 years re: location independence for working p...

  Colorful coverlet, Birmingham, Alabama. May 2021.   At the thrift store, a cotton coverlet called to me from atop sedimentary layers of cl...

  My Oliver Lee State Park campsite, outside Alamogordo, New Mexico. September 2012. I've flirted with the idea of becoming a full-timer...

Flower yellow and blue, Lafayette, Louisiana. January 2014.     I'm glad some folks study joy.  I started to write this post on what sci...

  Mulberries, George Ward Park, Glen Iris, Birmingham, Alabama. April 2021. Now that the cold winter has finally slunk away, every day in th...

  A happy couple in Nazret, Ethiopia. September, 2006.   We are not a glum lot I'm not an alcoholic, but I am in a 12-step fellowship th...

  The Honey Comb Barber Shop, Opelousas, Louisiana. October 2015.   I got my hair cut the day before my mother's funeral last week. It w...

  Carol Cottage, Missouri. January 2011. Dear Mom,  I've written you a letter almost every Monday since mid-December 2018.  In that firs...

    Paths crossing in Castlewood State Park, Missouri. April 2018.   Where will I land for 2021-2022? As Bones said long ago: "...in i...

  De Soto State Park, Alabama. March 2021. COVID and a cold winter has made me sluggish in Alabama.  Although my departure from Birmingham l...