— casual missives from under that big red sun

Category: Park City Utah

Oregon Again, the Pretty Woman Behind Every Waterfall, Photographic Verisimilitude, and Animated Photographs

Post author By jim owens
Post date August 1, 2026

One of the small houses of Neskowin, the delightful tiny village along the central coast. © Jim Owens

This writing finds me back in northern Utah at what appears to be the end of that difficult part of Summer when monsoonal rains kick down soaring temperatures. This breaking point is invariably well received, at least by me. In Southern Nevada things are still boiling with some of the hottest weather they have had […]

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my inner canadian, little rhody, another upcoming trip, and more park city photography

Post author By jim owens
Post date June 23, 2026

Back in the day. © Jim Owens

I was all good to go with writing this post on an airplane headed for Nevada, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island but things happened. Actually the movie Amelie which I had never seen was on the menu for the longer flight and so I forgot about this little ditty. Excellent movie. I remember it […]

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back at it, again, again

Post author By jim owens
Post date February 12, 2026

My, my. It has been a while. And for all the wrong reasons. Forgive me, but I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of observing American politics. It certainly is both emotional and entertaining, both a tragedy and a comedy. Political podcasts are poison to productivity, and creativity for that matter. Yet another assault on our […]

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a second spring and travel in america in 2023

Post author By jim owens
Post date May 15, 2023

Back north again and experiencing the reset that is a second Spring. One year we managed Spring in Grove City, Florida, followed by Southern Nevada, followed by Kihei, Hawaii, followed by Park City, Utah. That year of the four Springs is now established as something to work towards going forward. It was sort of accidental […]

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a real winter, pop-music, artificial intelligence and euro plans

Post author By jim owens
Post date February 21, 2023

Back in Park City, Utah. Snow. More snow. Still more snow. Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow and snow every day and night for the next two weeks. This was the sort of winter we had back in the early and mid-nineties. Back when some years it snowed on the fourth of July. I had […]