Gallery
A coyote in search of a meal. If you are searching for an engaging short essay on the coyote, please read “Bat Wings and Coyote Tales” in my literary blog, “The Americopa Review” (TAR).
Interested in how alien rumors can set humans off on a cascading series of unfortunate events? If so, then you should read “Lizard People: Death Valley Underground.”
Montana’s Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Montana’s Powder River. one of the West’s longest free-flowing rivers.
Mural in Soulsville, Memphis, Tennessee
Glaciers feeding a stream in Washington State’s North Cascades. If you are searching for an engaging short essay on the Earth’s disappearing glaciers, please read my “Glacial Requiem” located in the Write and Wrong page.
A Levon Helm tribute in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas.
Palm trees in the California desert
Wyoming’s Grey Buffalo Horn
Most glaciers throughout the world are disappearing. For a literary story on this crisis, please read “Ice Remembered.”
Mount Shuksan and the Nooksack Tower in the North Cascades of Washington State–and the cover photo to my book, “Nowhere Bound: A Spud’s Reflections on Climbing and Caving–and Other Useless Toils.”
A remnant piece of tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma.
The Copper Queen Library in historic Bisbee, Arizona. Bisbee features prominently in my upcoming mystery novel, “Bisbee and the Haunted (Psycho-Mystery 27 on Acid).” Please keep an eye out for it starting in Spring 2026.
The Texan landscape where Pedro chooses to grow his pickle farm–in my novella, “Pedro’s Pickles and the American Dream.”
The Colorado River in Utah.
The corner of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia (“TAG”) contains many caves with vertical pit entrances. Note: for scale, there is a caver ascending the rope to the right of the waterfall.
A mayfly along the Illinois River.
Pallid sturgeon. For a short story on this imperiled fish of America’s “fly-over country,” see “Gaslighting Sturgeon” in my literary blog, “The Americopa Review” (TAR).
Hoover Dam and the Colorado River. For an engaging literary essay on disappearing water in the Western U.S., please check out my “Of Mountain Men and Water Fountains” in my literary blog, “The Americopa Review” (TAR).
Neotropical migratory hummingbird along the San Pedro River, Arizona. For a short essay on the birds of the San Pedro River, please check out “Wonders that Cannot be Fathomed, Miracles that Cannot be Counted” in my literary blog, “The Americopa Review” (TAR).
One of the many abandoned buildings in Cairo, Illinois.
Pickle Farm Road, the partial inspiration for my novella, “Pedro’s Pickles and the American Dream.”
Petroleum facilities in Montana’s Powder River country.
A Western fencepost.