The South Fork of the Coquille River, about 5 miles south of Powers along County Road 219 (which turns into National Forest Development Road 33), cuts a beautiful channel through the hills. There are lots of waterfalls including this one, Elk Creek Falls, which is about 50 yards from the road. (more…)
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Slip-sliding away…
Our county road runs past our house here on the ranch, and up the hill further into the wilderness. There are two houses past ours. Yesterday those neighbors had some trouble getting to town because the road slid down the hill a few feet. The road crew came out and fixed it within 24 hours, […]
Democracy in the Middle East
I just read Ken Blackwell’s essay called “Purple Fingers Aren’t Enough”. He has given eloquent voice to the thoughts running around in many of our heads as we watched the revolution succeed in Egypt. In effect, most of what he said can be summed up in the quote he gives from Edmund Burke: “Men of […]
Beehive – honeycomb
Late in October 2010, before the rains started in earnest for the year, we did some burning on “Hell’s Half Acre”, our Oak Savanna restoration project here on the ranch. The burning was done to get rid of endemic poison oak and invasive blackberries, salmonberries and Douglas Fir trees, among others, that had pretty much […]
Updated JM Blog Design
We recently updated the WordPress software for this blog, and the old theme (had it in place since 2003!) finally broke beyond all repair. So – we have a somewhat new look, which you’ll see on all the pages of the site now. The new design incorporates part of the old design (kept it in […]
Connie Willis quote about regret
I sometimes wondered if it were the best way to spend my youth — shouldn’t I be out making a fortune, or writing books, or just sailing around the world or something?
SEO Audits | A Good Overview from Adam Audette
“SEO is both an art and a science.” The science is in the DATA — what you see when you look at the inner workings of the site. The ART is in knowing what that data MEANS, and the way that one uses that data to achieve higher rankings
Dry skin treatment
I don’t often plug products here.
SEO – How to Silo a Website
PageRank coming from Google, when the site is silo’d properly, is then smoothly distributed through your home page to your main sub-pages, then down to their sub-pages…
The Psychiatric Drug Money Machine
“How many hundreds of thousands of people do you have to kill before it becomes socially wrong?”