📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 26: Critters

Seals in Liberty Bay, Washington

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 25: Spine

The spine of this tattered old book tells a story of how loved it is. I must have read these stories a dozen times over the past thirty years. Scribbles and underlines and exclamation marks scattered throughout. A life in marginalia.

Photo of The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 24: Light

Is there anything more mesmerizing than the shifting light and shapes of a campfire under a blanket of stars?

Campfire

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 23: Dreamy

Boston Terrier Asleep in the Library

Currently reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 📚

Finished reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Characters who love books and reading, lots of fun literary references, a bookstore set on an island … this one could have been written just for me. ★★★★☆

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 22: Blue

Crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca on a clear, calm day.

Strait of Juan de Fuca on a clear, calm day

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 21: Mountain

Mount Rainier while under sail in Commencement Bay (2006).

Mount Rainier from the water

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 20: Ice

The winter before we moved full time to Arizona.

Currently reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚

Finished reading: Desperation by Stephen King 📚

Maybe not one of Mr. King’s best efforts, but it was entertaining, and the ending came together better than I expected. ★★★☆☆

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 19: Birthday

A puppy for my son’s 13th birthday back in 2015. Happy memories.

A boy and a Puggle puppy

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 18: Mood

Tonight’s camp site here in the Mojave National Preserve has put me in a good mood. It doesn’t get much better than this.

Campground, Mojave National Preserve

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 17: Transcendence

La Ventana Arch, New Mexico

La Ventana Arch, New Mexico

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 15: Small

I’ve never felt quite so small or felt part of something quite so large as when standing on the lip of the Grand Canyon. It truly is one of Earth’s wonders.

Grand Canyon

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 14: Cactus

Saguaro Cactus along a hiking trail in Arizona

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 13: Page

A random page from The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Definitely the trippiest book I’ve ever read, yet poignant and incredibly memorable. In sailing, we say it’s the journey, not the destination that matters. Same with House of Leaves.

Pages from the House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 12: Magic

Picture of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 11: Sky

📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 10: Train

Hobo bunnies waiting on a train in Ladysmith, British Columbia.

Wild rabbits in Ladysmith, British Columbia