The pleasure and magic of reading

 Reading makes you free. It can make you sing - or howl.

Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality

Harold Bloom: The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life

Deng Ming-Dao: The Lunar Tao

Rebecca Goldstein: 36 Arguments for the existence of god

Ani Choying Drolma: Singing for freedom

Howl: A Graphic Novel - Allen Ginsberg, Eric Drooker 

Eric Orton: The Cool Impossible

John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield: The New Runner

N.E. Renton: Renton’s Metaphors

Australian Wildlife - Bradt Travel Guide

Louise Egerton and Jiri Lochman: Wildlife of Australia

Griffith Review 43: Pacific Highways - Julianne Schultz and Lloyd Jones

Richard Feynman. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Dawkins. The Magic of Reality

Kevin J. Anderson: War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

Reading takes you to the highways and byways. It takes you running with wildlife in the backways, or takes you in a time machine around the world. Reading, it takes just like a taker.

H.G. Wells: The Time Machine

War of the Worldviews - Leonard Mlodinow and Deepak Chopra

Is God an Illusion?: The Great Debate Between Science and Spirituality - Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow

The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow

The healing power of meditation

Greil Marcus: Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads

Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 

The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood

Mark Twain: The Prince and the pauper

Ian MacEwan: Sweet Tooth

John LeCarre: A Perfect Spy

Reading lets you in the world of princes and paupers, spies, cops, and the dead;

fantasy, corruption, morality, mortality and reality.

Le Carre: Call for the dead

John Banville: Doctor Copernicus

Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow’s Story

Ian Rankin: The Black Book, The Impossible Dead,

The Complaints, Strip Jack & Tooth and Nail

The Cordillera Panorama

Images of the Cordillera in 2014.

Bayyo

A landslide on the Bekkel-Shilan Road north of Lamut.

Trekkers from Camp 6 to Kabuyao.

Arak Cliff on the Mainit Road.

Mainit Road.

Balitian bridge at the junction on the Chico river.

Sagada caves

Guina-ang

The Chico river in Bontoc

The Mt Data plateau has been cultivated for generations now, but it was once a mossy montane rainforest. These vegetable farms, at 2300m above the sea, would have to be amongst the highest in the Philippines. The highest and best use is for National Park - NOT.

Sinto, Mt Data

La Trinidad from the hills west of Longlong.

In the foregound is Dalican Road, and in the background the road to Sagada and Besao.

Just a shot out at the corral towards Lower Wangal.

Loakan runway

A mini-geyser in Mainit

In Mainit, when the roosters crow at the break of dawn.

Guina-ang from the southeasterly direction

Kabuyao transmission towers

Bayyo

Lion's Head, Kennon Road. Camp 6, Tuba.

Campers below Kabuyao

Paktil ravine/ Mt Data cliff

Hang-gliding from Chata plateau in Bontoc

The hills above Lubas east of La Trinidad

Mt Yangbew

And above Tawang where a mountain goat is sometimes silhouetted in the sky lang.

Samoki

Ricefields in Sagada

Ricefields in Guina-ang

Ricefields in Bontoc

Paktil Cliff

Abatan, Buguias

Alab

Somewhere between Lamut and Lubas,

there's a window where you can see Sto Tomas.

Bridge over troubled Chico waters

Bontoc

Guina-ang

Mt Kalawitan and Mt Amuyao viewed from Mt Data

Dapdapanan and Kiltepan from the Mainit Road

Talampas ng Bontoc - Chata.

Chak-kang, Chonglian-Guina-ang

Dalican

La Trinidad from Quirino Hill

Upper Dalican

Looking southeast over parts of Tuba from StoTomas

Looking north from a hill near Kallugong in La Trinidad

Looking at Mt Tabayoc and Mt Pulag from Mt Data

Baguio from Ambiong, La Trinidad

La Trinidad from Talinguroy

Abatan from Mt Data

A bare-looking salad bowl.

The winds began to howl...

I got out of there before the hooting from the scops owl.