This is one of the amazing views from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles (see large: Getty Center Garden Cafe and Valley Panorama
Here's a slide show with about 100 or so photos from April 2009 during a visit to the Getty Museum:
The Getty Museum
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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Trip to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, April 2009
This is one of the amazing views from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles (see large: Getty Center Garden Cafe and Valley Panorama
Here's a slide show with about 100 or so photos from April 2009 during a visit to the Getty Museum:
The Getty Museum
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad by Woody Guthrie
Going where the river runs with wine oh loard, and I ain't gonna be treated this 'ere way!
Lyrics: http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Going_Down_The_Road.htm
Lyrics: http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Going_Down_The_Road.htm
Bohemian Grove
While travelling recently in California, I had the opportunity to stop by the Bohemian Grove. It's a place I have long been curious about. It was an uninvited visit, so I wasn't able to enter the private property of the Grove. But just seeing the entrance was quite an experience in itself.
The Bohemian Club hosts an annual summertime encampment at the Grove. It's an event where a couple thousand or so of some of the world's most powerful men gather to supposedly, and among other things, banish their cares about the world. This banishment of care is exemplified in the encampment yearly initiation ceremony, which is descriptively titled the "Cremation of Care." In the ceremony, the effigy of a young child named "Dull Care" is sacrificed and cremated upon an altar.
Here are some photos from the entrance, and more of my thoughts about the "cremation of care."
Caring is a virtue. To care ought NOT to be thought of as onerous or burdensome.
We are all of one human family.
We are, each of us, complete, within and of, our own selves.
That's truth.
There is also truth in power. But it is not a full or complete truth. The full truth, a holistic truth, takes into account the effects of our actions on others. When another, or others, are hurt by my activities (or even perhaps lack thereof,) whether the activities be personal, recreational, professional and/or business, then a balance has been broken - a harmony disrupted. We are all one human family, and no one is left undamaged when we hurt one another. No one is left unscathed. Not the aggressor (or oppressor), nor, certainly, the target (of oppression - or any type of hurt.)
Human beings are to be respected. Not exploited. Not commodified. Not treated as a market for the peddling of wares. Human beings are sacred, and very worthy of being cared for.
Humans are here on Earth to be stewards, gardners, protectors - guiding perhaps, and improving, and beautifying - but not ruling. I believe that humans are not meant to rule over each other, nor to rule over the Earth.
Here's a link to an article by Alex Shoumatoff published in the May 2009 Vanity Fair magazine: www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905
More information about the Bohemian Grove from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
More photos:
Bohemian Grove "Timber Harvest" Paperwork
Bohemian Grove County Line
Entrance to Bohemian Grove
The Bohemian Club hosts an annual summertime encampment at the Grove. It's an event where a couple thousand or so of some of the world's most powerful men gather to supposedly, and among other things, banish their cares about the world. This banishment of care is exemplified in the encampment yearly initiation ceremony, which is descriptively titled the "Cremation of Care." In the ceremony, the effigy of a young child named "Dull Care" is sacrificed and cremated upon an altar.
Here are some photos from the entrance, and more of my thoughts about the "cremation of care."
Caring is a virtue. To care ought NOT to be thought of as onerous or burdensome.
We are all of one human family.
We are, each of us, complete, within and of, our own selves.
That's truth.
There is also truth in power. But it is not a full or complete truth. The full truth, a holistic truth, takes into account the effects of our actions on others. When another, or others, are hurt by my activities (or even perhaps lack thereof,) whether the activities be personal, recreational, professional and/or business, then a balance has been broken - a harmony disrupted. We are all one human family, and no one is left undamaged when we hurt one another. No one is left unscathed. Not the aggressor (or oppressor), nor, certainly, the target (of oppression - or any type of hurt.)
Human beings are to be respected. Not exploited. Not commodified. Not treated as a market for the peddling of wares. Human beings are sacred, and very worthy of being cared for.
Humans are here on Earth to be stewards, gardners, protectors - guiding perhaps, and improving, and beautifying - but not ruling. I believe that humans are not meant to rule over each other, nor to rule over the Earth.
Here's a link to an article by Alex Shoumatoff published in the May 2009 Vanity Fair magazine: www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905
More information about the Bohemian Grove from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
More photos:
Bohemian Grove "Timber Harvest" Paperwork
Bohemian Grove County Line
Entrance to Bohemian Grove
Photos from Trip to Bermuda
I posted a lot of photos (over 400) from my recent Bermuda visit. Check them out: www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock/sets/72157606370057712/
Back from Travels
Hey, I am back from major travels. I went to Minnesota and Wisconsin, and then to Bermuda. It was a good two weeks. Lots of stories to share - I don't know where to start!, and I took a lot of photographs.
Anyway, I am back in Olympia and gearing up to restart! I do feel refreshed from the travels, though I am certainly tired out and looking forward to getting more energy as I get back into a routine. On my list of things to do is finding employment and cleaning my room and getting going with an exercise routine again. I am looking forward to plugging back in to Olympia!
I pulled some garlic out of the front lawn garden at my girlfriend's house. check it out:
It looks a lot better now that Ana cleaned it up, I haven't photographed the clean bulbs yet though.
I am looking forward to posting more photos, and possibly more stories, from the travels! Stay tuned.
Anyway, I am back in Olympia and gearing up to restart! I do feel refreshed from the travels, though I am certainly tired out and looking forward to getting more energy as I get back into a routine. On my list of things to do is finding employment and cleaning my room and getting going with an exercise routine again. I am looking forward to plugging back in to Olympia!
I pulled some garlic out of the front lawn garden at my girlfriend's house. check it out:
It looks a lot better now that Ana cleaned it up, I haven't photographed the clean bulbs yet though.
I am looking forward to posting more photos, and possibly more stories, from the travels! Stay tuned.
Queen's Entrance
Me and Ana standing in front of the Queen's Entrance to the British Columbia legislative buildings:
Victoria B.C. and Olympic Peninsula Travels
I spent last weekend traveling to Victoria B.C. and the Olympic Peninsula with Ana. Here are some photos from the trip:link to set
Life and Death
An old tree has died and fallen, it's decay will provide nutrients for other trees to live and grow. It will also provide habitat for a host of other organisms.
Photos from June Road Trip
The set of photos from a road trip I took this past June to CA and OR is ready for viewing. Here's a link http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock/sets/72157600676235927/.
Here's a sample from the Summit of Half Dome:
Here's a sample from the Summit of Half Dome:
From Yosemite
Here's a photograph from Yosemite. I will be posting more pictures from my road trip in the next few days or so. Here's a link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitlock/sets/72157600676235927/,
and a sample:
and a sample:
Back from the long road...
I'm back in Olympia after a long road trip. Nearly two weeks of travels and 2,500 miles through the states of Washington, Oregon, and California. I did so much stuff, it's hard to decide where to start. But anyway, I drove first to Auburn California where my Grandmother lives in a gracious retirement community. I spent a couple of enjoyable days with her - I even won about $40 at the slots on Sunday.
From there I went to a small town in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to visit my Uncle Brandt and his wife Stevee. They live in a cool house in a beautiful spot right on the side of a mountain that stretches up 9,000 feet.
I left early on Tuesday morning to get to Yosemite in the early afternoon. The highlight from that stay was a 10 hour hike up to, and back from, the summit of half dome. It was about 17 miles with an elevation gain (and loss) of nearly 5,000 feet. More on that later.
This picture is from Crater Lake as I stood looking out over one of the deepest lakes in the world. Crater lake is almost 2,000 feet deep. The lake's remoteness and isolation make it a special system for studying the effects of humans on climate. The water temperature and surrounding air temperature both show increases over the past few years. It is only common sense to assume that all of the fires and engines of human productivity would contribute to an overall warming effect on the Earth's climate and surface systems, like Crater Lake. Anthropogenic forcing of heat into the atmosphere is already having consequences for humans, as well as a slew of other creatures. Some animals face an ever increasingly hostile environment and ever increasing chances of extinction as habitat changes become more pronounced and severe. What can I do to ameliorate and prevent the further effects of human caused climate change?
From there I went to a small town in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to visit my Uncle Brandt and his wife Stevee. They live in a cool house in a beautiful spot right on the side of a mountain that stretches up 9,000 feet.
I left early on Tuesday morning to get to Yosemite in the early afternoon. The highlight from that stay was a 10 hour hike up to, and back from, the summit of half dome. It was about 17 miles with an elevation gain (and loss) of nearly 5,000 feet. More on that later.
This picture is from Crater Lake as I stood looking out over one of the deepest lakes in the world. Crater lake is almost 2,000 feet deep. The lake's remoteness and isolation make it a special system for studying the effects of humans on climate. The water temperature and surrounding air temperature both show increases over the past few years. It is only common sense to assume that all of the fires and engines of human productivity would contribute to an overall warming effect on the Earth's climate and surface systems, like Crater Lake. Anthropogenic forcing of heat into the atmosphere is already having consequences for humans, as well as a slew of other creatures. Some animals face an ever increasingly hostile environment and ever increasing chances of extinction as habitat changes become more pronounced and severe. What can I do to ameliorate and prevent the further effects of human caused climate change?
On the Road
I'm on the road and I forgot my electrical cord and adapter for my laptop. So I won't be updating this blog much for the next week or so. Or checking my email. I am going to learn how to breath again. maybe. Smile! My cell phone will be on though.
Hopefully I will have a few good photographs to share when I return. Until then, peace and truth!
Light and Dark
This is the dividing line between light and dark - between light and day - on Earth as see from a commercial jet airplane at cruising altitude:
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