We Are Augustines: Somewhere Over The Mountain

What more is this blog about than great music recorded live at a beautiful location? The background alone makes me miss the West. A hat tip to NPR Music.

"Honeybee" at East Wind

Stumbling is fun. Donovan videos linked to a Rainbow Gathering video, which came from a brilliant documentary project called The Idiocratic Life, featuring lovely blog posts including one on the East Wind Community near Tecumseh, Missouri. Here's a song from a couple of their beautiful bards.

 

Water In the Desert

Few places in my travels have come to mean as much to me as the Great Basin. Several posts on this blog including Turning the Pages of a Mountain and My Own Finding Everett Ruess are about wonderings through some section in or around the Great Basin. Consequently, I took High Country News' post entitled "Las Vegas Bets Big On Rural Water" with a bit of heartache. Plans are made to allow the shuttling of water out of five basins of origin and into Las Vegas. What the impact could be on the people, plants and wildlife of the southeastern Great Basin is beyond my area of expertise to predict. The watersheds included in this plan are home to rural Nevada towns, Great Basin National Park and cattle pasture. The best I can do is share what the area affected by this plan looks like. It is my hope that through these images some greater understanding of what it has come to mean to me is better understood.

Great Basin National Park