I suppose I’ve set out to create a blog a half dozen times in my life.

It can be difficult to maintain the consistent output necessary for the project. The last time I started a project like this it never got past my test post.

This time I’m going right into it with a few thoughts on what I do and why I think somebody might want to read my rambling thoughts.

Basically, I spend a lot of time researching, writing about and photographing the hunk of the world the geographers have labed North Dakota. I hope that a few of you folks find that interesting.

This time of year, many of my thoughts are about getting out and looking for things to photograph like this bud for a prairie smoke wildflower I shot last June 1 at the Audubon Refuge north of Jamestown.

And it gives me a chance to learn a little about the software, and I promise I’ll get past that step this time