This evening marks a lunar eclipse — seen by people all over the world, including 11,000 miles away in my hometown of Rochester, NY. It is the second of the tetrad – a series of four successive total lunar eclipses, with no partial lunar eclipses…
A die cast sculpture of a townsperson of Menzies, western Australia, looks out over Lake Ballard. 150 of these sculptures, of all types of Menzies residents, dot the dried-up lake. To me, in my state of mind, they all seemed to be looking forward,…
When I finally board the Prospector and push my backpack, tent and camera bag up into the overhead of the car, I will have been in Australia for 8 weeks and seen nothing except freaking Kalgoorlie. Haaa! I don't mind. I, in fact, will say, go…
Still can't believe I flushed a toilet and toads scrambled up the bowl. And four more did when I used the OTHER toilet, next door. When I tell this incredible tale to my Aussie folk here, they give me the "you're talking about buying…
Life from the top of the 4-wheel-drive and "swag" tents out in the bush, helping the Ngalia Aboriginal mob document a sacred part of their living history. We are on the road hours east of Leinster, western Australia, in the out out back,…
Walking down the Main Street, chilled, to my hostel, I see two men huddled next to each other, presumably talking. They are about 3 blocks away from me, but the corner of Hannan here is where the light is. They move off and minutes later I arrive…
At 77, Brian Champion has lived in two worlds. Until he was 7 or 8, he lived with his parents — Kaprun people on Kaprun land. Their ancestors lived in their country (land) for ages. Not too long ago, DNA from a single lock of hair confirmed that…
9.23.14-Sevenhurtz Brenton Meynell creates music with this bandmates in the way Outback with his friends. They record their pieces in his home studio, Brenton strumming chords on his guitar in a house with a red-dirt yard off Rochester Street. “…
Now that's a first. I just flushed the toilet and a toad jumped out of the water and up the side of the bowl. I tried to save him for a better life, but he dove back into the toilet pipes! — in Leonora, Western Australia [https://www.google.com…
