A Place of River and Sky

New Zealand

  • Bringing Birdsong Back

    Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. Rachel Carson   This… Continue reading

  • The Home People

      The scene couldn’t have been more grand. Two men dressed in black carrying long carved horns heralded us from the long ramp descending to Floor 3 of Te Papa Museum.  They motioned us to move forward and disappeared around the corner into the… Continue reading

  • Tongariro Crossing Take Two- that was then, this is now

    Way back when, at the very start of the new millenium, I traveled to New Zealand and Tonga. The purpose was simple- a friend asked me to go to Tonga to avoid the impending Y2K disaster and greet the new year,… Continue reading