Technologist. Photographer. Naturalist. Thinker.
So what sort of results do you get combining technology, photography, nature and a love of words and people into a site?
As this post completes my series of introductory posts about my site, I thought I would introduce the Pictures section with images from a recent photo shoot with Nicole. Enjoy!
What sort of additional images would you like to see here?
What power do words have to affect others? And how can written words lead to good conversations?
The fourth in a starting series of five posts, this post introduces you to the section of my site focusing on words.
Once, thousands of miles from home on a business trip, I was given a stranger’s office to use for the day as they were out of town. Being a curious sort, I was looking at the small bits of wisdom printed out and posted on their corkboard while waiting on a friend. Surprisingly, I found a small essay I had written long before on CompuServe had been printed out and pinned to the board.
I never did meet that person or find out how my words had touched them enough to save and display. But it was the first time that I truly realized that my words thrown out into the ether could touch another and help them. It was a very humbling experience, and it showed me that my words can help others.
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Aside from either work or home, where do you like to go to get away from it all?
Often, when I am not working with technology, or at home with my kids, I can be found in Nature somewhere. When I decided to bring all of my interests and efforts together into this single communications channel, I knew my explorations and studies in Nature would be a part of it. This post is another in my small introductory series to introduce you to myself, my site and my interests and to start the discussion of what needs this place and I can help meet.
Although born in Houston and raised in New Orleans, I grew up spending quite a bit of time in the piny woods, swamps and marshes of Louisiana and Mississippi from my time as a Boy Scout. Nowadays, it may be because of the Brazos Bend photowalks taught by Dr. Lazlo Perlaky, or my own volunteer work at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, or just setting time aside for the Texas State Parks and even occasional wanderings into Oklahoma and Kansas as I explore the Great Plains. I am also working towards certification as a Texas Master Naturalist.
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