Late into the Night, The MSU Pirsig Chautauqua Continues, around Tina’s and Tom’s Dining Table.

Lee Glover is continuing to explain the intricate weaving of the themes of his “Meridian” DVD, which was premiered the previous day, at The MSU Pirsig Chautauqua Conference.

David Buchanan, Tina DeWeese, and Henry Gurr (empty chair).listen intently. Tom Thornton joins in later, to learn patterns of atoms, crystals, and numerology, from Lee Glover.
A photo visit, in the home, world (and life) of the Cottonwood Canyon Artists, in this, and the next 3 photos.


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You can see it written all over my face: I can't even fake a smile!! Too grogged out by the worst virus head cold I have ever had!!

Yours truly, has lost too many nights of sleep on the bus, plus was maxed out keeping up with the Pirsig Chautauqaua sessions, and then stressed-out being cogent-coherent for his talk, the very last session.

But, I’ve survived, to tell the story!!

In the background, is the woodpile for heating the rst of the building attached to the wall at left. This large building, now rented to a mountaineering couple, was the former painting studio and showroom and home of Tina's Mother Gennie DeWeese, in her later years.

Note the snow covered post lower left, and the platform I'm on. You will see it again in next photo composite. (This platform really is the the entrance porch to Gennies old studio.)



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A Composite, Of Four Photos Taken Left To Right, As I Was Standing On Porch, That Was Mentioned In Previous Photo.
At left of the composite, again you see the woodpile, and the overhanging roof. Then swinging right you see the valley of Cottonwood Creek. Swinging more to right see the platform, friendly dog, and snow covered posts of previous photo. Then moving forward, you see Tina & Tom’s five horses, Tina has just broken open a bale of hay, and spread it around for the horses, seen eating.


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Views of The DeWeese Ranch, & Cottonwood Creek Valley, in a Composite Of Four Photos Taken Left To Right, As I Was Standing , At the Neighbors Fence.

At the left of this composite, you see neighbor's fence and Cottonwood Canyon Road Leading Downstream. In the distance, and at a considerably lower elevation, you can make out the form of a bigger valley that receives the water from Cottonwood Creek. Then swinging right,you see Tina & Tom’s house, really Bob & Gennie’s house, plus you can imagine Cottonwood Creek, flowing at the base of the mountain. Now swinging more right, you again see the mountain and more clearly where Cottonwood Creek runs at the base of the mountain, as well as a portion of Gennie’s former Art Studio Building. Swinging more right, the fence again.

As I was taking the previous two photos, this most friendly horse was sniffing around my face and camera. I could smell the breath and feel the brush of whiskers!!! Disappointed by lack of offering food, friend horse trudges toward the next adventure! Horses have their Quality Track as well as Humans!!



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I’m on my way home, after two wonderful days at “The Robert Pirsig ZMM Chautauqua Conference”.

I’m happy to be riding back into this Indiana farm country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. Tensions disappear along old roads like this. We bump along the beat-up concrete between the fields of corn stubble and stretches of meadow & bare trees, and then more corn stubble and of meadow & bare trees. Here and there is a stretch of woods, through which I see the yellow-orange of the beginning of sunset …. suddenly I remember …. “Take Sunset Photos”!!

In the lower part of this photo, notice the streak-smeared grass and highway bottom: This is because these photos were taken out the side window of our 70 MPH Greyhound Bus. Lower left is bus seat back.


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Taking sunset photos has been a rewarding practice of mine on my trips, starting with my ZMM Book Research in 2002.
Having been .. **AHA**, .. prompted to take Sunset Photos, I haul out my only camera, you guessed it, my Trusty Palm Centro! And then whack away at getting the right combination, of trees, fields, sun, and lack of houses, advertising signs, & electric power poles. You can see from the photo numbers, such as 003, 009, etc, how many total photos were taken total, verses how many turned out good enough for you to see here!!


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Beautiful, Pure White, Wispy Cirrus Above Sunset Along I-75 South of Indianapolis: At Left, the tree branches are horizontally streaked, proof of our 70 MPH speeding Greyhound Bus!!
Due to the low light of dusk, you can now see at the top of the bus seat ahead of mine (lower left), and splatter smudge of something that hit my window (to right). These will be noticed in the next photos.

The winter wind, being cold, has no odors from the harvested fields by the road. We, on this 80% filled bus, are just South of Indianapolis IN, in an area of the Central Indiana, which is level land & rich farming soil. This is because, this area was once a former glacier lake bottom, of a REALLY Great Lake, that covered all of North Cenrtal USA!!

This highway is an old concrete four-laner that has had so much traffic that it is far too rough and bumpy to lean back to rest, so I’m composing the first rough draft of this letter, on a yellow tablet given to me by my Indianapolis friend David Strom.



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We’ve Just Gone Through An I-075 Interchange, Providing an Opening For a Good Photo Op !!
“Poked with my right thumb, I can see on my trusty Palm Centro Cell, that it is four-thirty in the afternoon, Wed 13 Dec. Heading South, the wind at the bus’s sixty miles an hour, is chilly and dry, in the bright December Mid PM Sun. The sky has been clear up to now, but to SW I see wispy streaked Cirrus Clouds. This means a new weather system coming!! I’m wondering what it’s going to be like for the rest of my Greyhound Bus trip, thru Atlanta, to Aiken & home.

A Car and Semi Truck on the pavement, dimly seen at photo bottom, tell that our bus is traveling over the bridge of an highway interchange, The wide no tree spaces provided a longer camera posing time, resulting from the much longer opening from the close up trees!!! Hence a good “Photo Op”!!!


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No Snow Here!! Quite A Contrast With My Previous Bozeman MT Photos, Which Showed Five Inches of ”Christmas Time Snow" At The DeWeese Ranch!!

Have you been noticing in these Indiana photos, that there is no snow on the ground: If fact, as I traveled East from Bozeman, the snow depth gradually increased. There was 9 inches of beautiful crystal white snow in Minneapolis, in BRIGHT sun WOW .....

Crossing the Mississippi River into St Paul, the bus followed I-90 East, where I was able to pick out the Frank Lloyde Wright House location, showed to me my John (ZMM) Sutherland, when I was there in 2002: I say this neat home, and many Robert Pirsig related sights, when he gave me a complete tour of The Twin Cities!! This tour memory reminds me of my many great pictures of places John Showed me. I still have to get up on ZMMQ Photo Gallery.


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