to leonard tillerman who may or may not regret following me today;)

new foto: the pile of burned branches on the hill in my “back yard” — looks the same as it did five years ago when i took the foto, later published “predictions from podunk” on medium.com

the hills north of carson city were burned to the ground during a summer i was visiting friends in port bruce, ontario, canada. maybe 2003.

another summer fire that burned the eastern sierra foothills happened when i was on my way to or coming back to nevada from port bruce. i had a cell phone, my in-bred border collie and no interest in politics or…