joined on 01/03/06
last updated 05/28/07
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"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." --Voltaire
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." --Henry Louis Mencken
"Love is a friendship set to music." --E. Joseph Cossman
Date and Peak Gust
12OCT1962: 116 mph
02OCT1967: 78 mph
28FEB1955: 76 mph
12DEC1995: 74 mph
09JAN1880: 73 mph
03NOV1958: 71 mph
26MAR1971: 71 mph
14NOV1981: 71 mph
17 Jan 1988
Lindbergh Field WSO
At 15:13 PST:
Average wind SW 40 mph.
At 15:15 PST:
Peak gust W 64 mph.
Maximum Wind Velocity
San Francisco Airport:
2-min Avg wind: 55 mph
5-sec Avg gust: 71 mph
At 18:55 PST
Angel Island:
Avg wind: 58 mph
Peak Gust: 97 mph
March 12, 2006
Delight in weather events shining in his blue eyes. Snowflakes caught in his dark wavy brown hair. The curve of his smile while composing a new e-mail to someone he cares about. A look of peace when he’s driving for fun. His laughter echoing at a bad joke. The intense animation when he’s discussing a scientific or philosophical concept with an appreciative friend. Sheer intelligence that allows him to accomplish pretty much anything he _really_ wants to. First two careers as a science fiction writer and artist, and when those didn’t fulfill enough, started a third, even greater career as a natural resource scientist; wondrous when some of us struggle to get even one career off the ground. Inspiring when he does what he needs to despite what he’s only supposed to be able to do. Frustrating when he doesn’t listen. Really annoying when he’s late. A lot. (Hey, he is human!)
I know others could do a much better job, since I’m really not a writer of any pretense. But the main point is, Wolf is an amazing person, and I have been so very blessed by all the little wonders in life to know him and be his true friend.
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
--Mark Twain
"I have a rule that I hesitate before making rules, based on the theory that a rule would invalidate my ability to judge each situation uniquely." --Edward, 08 Jan 2006
about me
Eclectic, artistic, scientific, but who isn't?
Illustration and writing come naturally to me. I've had works published in magazines and books. One achievement in these fields was to be the first person in the 75+ year history of Analog Science Fiction and Fact to have had his first short fiction chosen as the cover story and then subsequently be chosen to illustrate the prose.
This photo is for all my friends.
From the Elliott State Forest, high in the mountains just north of Coos Bay, a glimpse westward to the Pacific Ocean. A brilliant star ignites the coastal stratus with nuclear brilliance.
I'm stationed in Coos Bay now. I will be here for the entire month of July. My work will put me in the Elliott State Forest nearly every day. And, so far, each new day has brought its own surprises: A red-tailed hawk carrying off a live, squirming rabbit, so weighted d...
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Awoke at 02:45. Drove to the top of Snoqualmie Pass, in the pre-dawn dark, with a few truck drivers to keep me company on I-90. Then I carefully drove my Honda Accord up a rough, rocky and steep road to a pretty little lake above the ski area. All for two hours of incessant insect attacks during the crisp, calm morning of 27 Jun 2007. Photo taken at 05:21, about ten minutes after sunrise. Not a murrelet to be seen on the whole survey, though the screech owls, ravens and Stellar's jays were qu...
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But the above flower sure found a shower!
I think that was the longest stretch I've gone without a shower since childhood. Five days. Man, does cleaning up feel so good after such a stretch of days without a wash! And, most of those days, I endured very steep climbs through dense underbrush. Which meant lots of sweat, and lots of dirt.
Slopes exceeded 45 degrees, the duff was very loose, with crumbly sandstone beneath. I fell many times. Got rocks, Douglas-fir needles and soil in my boo...
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Looks like my first week at the new job will have me camping from Mon-Thur in the woodlands in the vicinity of Eugene. I'll likely be out of contact for much of that time. Oh, well. I'll have peace and wilderness! :o)
The photo is a shot from the Santa Cruz Mountains, taken two days ago. Steep, but lovely climb.
Sun, June 10, 2007 - 11:14 AM
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The world that sustains us is in constant flux, and with Homo sapiens' voracious appetite for energy, that flux has been enhanced in many ways. A constant addition of new structures and modifications to old structures is one reflection of an incredible consumption of energy. In the photo, what was a covered walkway nearly a decade ago is now an enclosed space. The water garden has become something entirely new. Outside of the photo, entire new buildings are lifting above the hilly campus land...
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South Coast Sunset
(blog entry)
This photo is for all my friends.
From the Elliott State Forest, high in the mountains just north of Coos Bay, a glimpse westward to the Pacific Ocean. A brilliant star ignites the coastal stratus with nuclear brilliance.
I'm stationed in Co...
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Snoqualmie Sunrise
(blog entry)
Awoke at 02:45. Drove to the top of Snoqualmie Pass, in the pre-dawn dark, with a few truck drivers to keep me company on I-90. Then I carefully drove my Honda Accord up a rough, rocky and steep road to a pretty little lake above the ski area. All...
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Nearly a Week Without a Shower
(blog entry)
But the above flower sure found a shower!
I think that was the longest stretch I've gone without a shower since childhood. Five days. Man, does cleaning up feel so good after such a stretch of days without a wash! And, most of those days, I end...
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Camping Outside Eugene
(blog entry)
Looks like my first week at the new job will have me camping from Mon-Thur in the woodlands in the vicinity of Eugene. I'll likely be out of contact for much of that time. Oh, well. I'll have peace and wilderness! :o)
The photo is a shot from t...
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Mulling Over Life, Change and the Murrelet
(blog entry)
The world that sustains us is in constant flux, and with Homo sapiens' voracious appetite for energy, that flux has been enhanced in many ways. A constant addition of new structures and modifications to old structures is one reflection of an incre...
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