Agnes and Zygmund Kowalski brought Polish sausage-making to Michigan in 1920.  The family continues to run a sausage factory in Hamtramck...

Petroleum heads west in tank cars, while coal heads east in bathtub gondolas .  There is a vast quantity of carbon energy being moved ar...

Eva the bald eagle must wonder where all the humans have gone.  It's 8am on a weekday, and there are all of three vehicles visible...

The soggy edge of a commercial cranberry bog along the Pacific coast near Heather, WA .  The fields are built to be level, and are floode...

Here lies the remains of a wood chipping mill, in Hoquiam WA .  The circular machine is a debarker : logs enter one end, and are rotated ...

Gray's Harbor Light Station is a grand and solidly built lighthouse, sited in Westport WA and still beaming a modest light to aim in...

Three inches of fresh snow were still falling here at the 4000ft level of Copper Lake .  Our lunch spot required traversing the outfall o...

A before (left) and after (right, flipped left-to-right) picture of Trout Lake on our weekend hike up the Foss Valley.  Three and a hal...

N171UA departs San Francisco for a >10 hour flight to Asia.  She's a 23 year old Boeing 747-400, and still the most attractive ai...

Nearly ripe coffee cherries enjoy the midday sun at Greenwell Farms in Kona.  These won't be roasted for coffee, but instead will be...

Kilauea's open caldera hosts a lava lake whose level rises and falls per the whims of the mountain.  It emits plenty of SO 2 : on the...

There are four features active in Volcano National Park: 1) a lake of lava in the active caldera 2) surface lava oozing slowly across...

Mauna Kea offers a stunning view from 13,796ft, and is accessible via 4WD on a steep gravel road.  On our visit, the cloud layer was aro...

There have been feral horses on the big island of Hawaii since around 1900.  They continue to populate the  Waipi'o Valley , a wild a...

The Getty Villa in Los Angeles is the second half of the Getty Museum.  The first half is a distinctive complex of modern buildings ove...