Picto Diary -24 to 28 May 2018 - Veterans Day
Above: Boarded up home. Murray, UT. 27 May 2018.
MURRAY STEPS
Run down house,
Roses persist.
Yin and Yang.
Yin part kissed.
Life's a blend.
Good and bad.
Lean to the flower,
As the house is had.
Above: Veterans Day ceremony. Park City Cemetery. 28 May 2018.
Monday.
17 November 1941.
Douglas B-18 bomber crashes on Park City's Iron Mountain, near where we live today. Two of seven US airmen lost.
Commemorative service in honor of the fallen... beautifully executed by organizers. Good vibes about remembering the fallen and feeling good about the US.
Abundance of Utah military brass, cops, and vets in attendance. Said hello to former mayor Dana Williams and County Councilman, Vietnam vet, Glenn Wright.
Image: USAF color guard.
Memory of crash lost in the wake of Pearl Harbor which occurred only three weeks later.
Now memory revived.
LEST WE FORGET.
Above: Bishop at grave site of his parents. Provo, UT Cemetery. 28 May 2018
Addendum:
Steve -
Great thanks for your missives from this trip. You visited many places that I’ve driven past the last 35 years in my travels between NW Washington and Park City. I’ll try to be not so destination-driven in the future.
I need to tell you about Wally Hoffman with the Washington DNR who helped develop circle irrigation on DNR lands in eastern Washington it the late 1960s and early 1970s. Go to Google Earth and look at the area around Kennewick (and look to the north, south, east and west to see what Wally begot. Take good soils and add water (there’s plenty of it below the plateau basalts of eastern Washington), and “viola.”
Oh, and your instincts on global warming are spot-on as far as I’m concerned. We now teach everybody a bit of science — enough that they are highly susceptible to some junk environmental science. And I think there’s a lot of bunk in today’s global warming science. To me the CO2 greenhouse theory has never quite held water. It all sounds good, but there are just too many holes in the theory. It simply doesn’t pass a thermodynamic review, at least as I see it (and my doctorate is 40% thermodynamics
[I call it geochemistry on my resume] and 60% geology. I know much more about thermodynamics that 99% of the world — and I still find it bewildering).
Personally I believe that global warming is both natural evolution of the earth geologically and human-caused. I don’t know which holds the greater effect. But I really think the CO2 greenhouse effect is negligible compared to other potential man-made effects (denudation of forests, black-topping of a fair bit of the earth’s surface, agricultural development, all these cities, etc). But the CO2 greenhouse theory plays so well with the so-called environmental community’s song to cut back on growth, and they sell it well.
Me? I don’t think it’s too much CO 2. I’m pretty sure that it’s just too many people on earth. We’re not going to starve our race off this planet by exceeding it’s capability to provide food for us all, we’re going to kill ourselves off by despoiling our home.
Billy Barker,
Park City, UT