Big Cedar Landscapes

Tanyard Creek. Bella Vista, Arkansas

Fayetteville

A couple pictures of where I am going to school. The University of Arkansas -- Fayetteville. We are the Razorbacks. Hogs, they say down here. Now, I guess I am a Hog. I took these pictures while I was walking around campus today. It's a pretty place. I'll take more when the light is nice.

Springtime Flowers

We live in the Ozarks! Sometimes we forget this. One of the things we're blessed with down are beautiful springtime flowers. I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago. We didn't plant these flowers. They came with the house!

Butterflies of Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo

Big Dreams: Lake Atitlan

This is Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. This picture was taken from a resort called Lomas de Tzununa. We'd like to go there every year for New Year's. A dream is a dream. Maybe not this year or next. But a dream is a great thing to have.

Nebraska

Handsome Ezekiel

His number one toy right now is Grandma Jean's plunger. He's gonna be one good looking plumber some day.

Sweet Boat

This is my brother-in-law Jon's boat. It's pretty sweet. He took me wake boarding one day and it was great except that I couldn't really walk or lean over and pick stuff up for two days after. Jon is really nice about giving all the little nieces and nephews rides in his sweet boat. The lake is called Long Lake and it is outside of Park Rapids, Minnesota.

The sky is courtesy of God. No charge.

Friday afternoon on the porch

Rio Zacate -- Atlantida, Honduras

We're homebodies for the most part, especially me. I am happy as a clam standing in the backyard barefoot watering the plants. That's my idea of a weekend. Our friends have been trying to get us to visit this spot for months. Sometimes it's good to leave the old ranch and see what the wide world has to offer.

Backyard Birds and Flowers

Art Show

These are for sale. Karine's cost a million each. Mine are eight bucks for the pair.

The Agenda

We're going to start off the day today with a little water color painting on the dining room table. We'll post the results in a few hours. We will be listening to the Velvet Underground during this activity.

Turboprop Pics

Here are some pictures I took on our flight from Tegucigalpa to San Pedro Sula last week. They are, what I believe to be, some pretty sweet pictures of a turboprop in action. I took 237 pictures, but Karine said I could only post my favorite one. So here are my favorite four.

Turboprop. That is a fun word.







If you like these pictures, you can contact the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation at the following email address: 4answers@macfound.org. I could also put them on a t-shirt, hat, or decorative plate and have them sent to your home.

Everyday in May

Alright, then. What a lot of people don't know about me is that I can make some pretty funny faces. With my face. I plan on posting everyday this month. Either my face or my words. Enjoy!

Pico Bonito

Stuff We Like: Craig Drives South

Karine discovered the blog Craig Drives South last night while doing some research on Central American tourism. Its the story of a guy who drives from Seattle, Washington to San Jose, Costa Rica in a junky Subaru. He has some pretty hilarious adventures along the way. And he writes with style. Here he is describing a character he met crossing the Nicaraguan border into Costa Rica:

"A couple customs checks later I was reduced to one faithful, non English speaking guide that had the breath of a dragon. If he was within a 6 foot radius the compost pile which was his mouth would almost asphyxiate you. I tossed him a couple cordobas for some Chiclets and he returned to duty as fresh as a daisy."

He travels into Honduras briefly, but most of the blog describes adventures which occur in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. He traveled between February 13 and April 23 of 2008. Anyone interested in visiting Central America would benefit from a gander at Craig's blog.

Craig took the picture below near Santa Rosa National Park in Costa Rica. Its the first place that Karine and I visited in Central America, sometime in January of 2002.

Photo: Craig, Craig Drives South

Guaruma

We went to a fundraiser last night for the Guaruma Organization. It was a silent auction at an art gallery here in La Ceiba. We wore our fancy pants. Click on the pretty butterfly to learn about all the wonderful things they do.

Copan, Honduras

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic