The Cicada’s buzz and whir in the trees and air, The Ash trees are slowly turning yellow, the seagulls lazily circle in rafts above me as they wend their way southward. The occasional call from one of the birds can be heard on earth……from a thousand feet above. At lower elevations the Monarchs do the …
The Streets of London I am obsessed with all things London. My interest began with the Women Warrior Boudicea, she looms large in my imagination. She was responsible for forestalling Roman advance into Londinium and the British Isles in and around 64 a.d. She burned it to the ground. Halting the Roman advance for some …
It was early summer or late spring the purple martins had fully fledged and were testing their skills on the windward shore of Lake Okabena on Sailboard Beach. Being new to the air they would flutter off the freshening breeze that was building on the shoreline. They were catching the breeze that mounted above tree …
At the Buffalo Billfold Company it is our confidence in the Craftsman way of life, command over materials, tools and processes that keep alive the spirit of American Cottage industry. At an early age I left the Univ. of S.D. and sought an apprenticeship as a shoe repairman, my specialty was filling orthopedic prescriptions for …
At an early age I was introduced to birding, it was a family adventure. On the prairies in the deep south of Minnesota I remember the excitement of seeing and identifying my first and only Marbled Godwit with my cousin. We were the only ones in Rock County to identify this amazing and elusive bird. …
We are celebrating our 60th day in London. Over the past decade we have returned to this amazing city, it calls to me. Having read the 1854 ? exhaustive treatise called Mayhew’s London by Henry Mayhew makes London the place for me. I go there to prove to myself that I love big cities. It …
I grew up in a small town in South Western Minnesota. I knew the out-of-doors, I knew the bounty of crops, birds, rivers, streams, beaver, muskrat, snapping turtles, river bottoms and sand pits. Throughout those years I utilized the spring water that flowed out of the earth like a gift from God. It was from …
Not BillKeitel.com Thirty years ago I was entertaining an international public relations friend from Japan. After our supper together the news came on an interrupted our pleasant conversation and evening. There had been a mass shooting in a McDonalds in California. It was one of the early assaults on our society and nation. It directed …
SUMMER ROADNOTES As the summer wears on we power up the photon boosters on the Starship and go where no leather smiths have gone before. Brookings Summer Art Festival is the first stop. It is held in a beautiful city park in amongst the trees, everybody has shade and shade is a valued commodity in …
When people don’t extend themselves in acts of friendship they learn nothing about society. I see this time and time again. My friends that are suspicious of people not like themselves signals to me that they have no experience with meeting others. My life has been made productive by meeting others, establishing relationships, getting to …