March 29, 2008 - a warm, yet pleasant Saturday afternoon - I was driving back from my first visit to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area when I saw the signs to mineral museum - not one, but two!! I should have carried The Picking Table (Journal of The Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society) that Dr. [...]

The Outing
After much deliberation by my dear friend (and his colleagues) that lasted for nearly 18 hours, it was decided that on Sunday, the 6th of April 2008, they would visit Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area. The underlying plan was to have their portraits taken (by yours-truly) with waterfalls/ravines/woods as the background.

Why Worth Forgetting?
After [...]

Like I thought in my previous non-technical posting, second part of Summer was indeed quite hectic. We didn’t get enough (any) rains and our UP fell under Extreme Drought label - making it nearly worthless to even attempt searching for any more waterfalls. With Labor Day marking the official end of Summer, following are a [...]

It has been almost five (yeah five long) weeks since I lost (almost) all motivation to keep writing these entries but break from writing gave me plenty of time to learn new things, read (what others write), weekend travel (mostly local), play (mostly softball but some [American] football as well) hangout with friends and shoot [...]

I am not so sure if you read my previous entry. If you did, you know where I have been. If you did not, please be notified that I have been lost in compilation… Colloquially speaking, I did not see any light anywhere in the tunnel and instead of resorting to some bar (and alcohol), [...]

It was couple nights ago that Monday Night Football turned out quite uninteresting and my attempts to get a certain program compiled were moving in an undesirable direction - it was just around the same time that Tim and Kyle suggested that we go out to shoot some star trails. Though Kyle stayed back in [...]