Mark harvesting honey combs, sept. 2012

chicks and goats

New Hampshire Reds and Mystery birds arrive at Shii Koeii

Heirloom Spinach Seeds, July 2011

Willow, July 2011

Big tipi in lower meadow, May 2011

Calendula Forest @ Shii Koeii

Colorado Bike Trip August 2007

Most people show their trip photos from beginning of trip to the end. Well, switcharoo on you! You get to view our photos from our August bike trip from end to the beginning, from the Palisade area (near Grand Junction) in reverse to our humble beginnings on a train ride from Denver to Granby.












Val riding along Colorado River in De Beque Canyon (shoulder of I-70)





Val with De Beque Canyon and Colorado River along bike path stretch parallel to I-70















Colorado River in De Beque Canyon and sunflowers!

















Grape Orchard with Bookcliffs in the Palisade area

Mark taking a Dorito break in De Beque Canyon

Support Resisters!

Letter I got published at www.Westword.com, in response to, An Uphill Battle, by Adam Cayton-Hollan, April 5, 2007.

My letter was published April 19, 2007:

Adam Cayton-Holland's superb story touchingly focuses on the intimate relationship between Steve Powers and Lance Hering, each successfully protecting the other from societal predators (police and the U.S. military). The thirty-plus grand that Steve has had to pay for the unnecessary search and rescue should be paid by all of us as gratitude for saving Lance from having to go back to U.S. military hell and, quite probably, saving many Iraqi lives.

The sooner we all support U.S. soldiers resisting orders and going AWOL, the sooner we'll have our families back, and the Iraqi people will get their land and country back.
Mark Schneider
Denver

Save Sami Al-Arian's Life!!

Dr. Sami Al-Arian is in his 59th day of a hunger strike for freedom. Dr. Arian is the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice by the United States Government. Please act now to demand Dr. Al-Arian's freedom and save his life.

March 20, 2007
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, calls on all people of conscience to demand that Dr. Sami Al-Arian is immediately freed from hispolitical imprisonment. Dr. Al-Arian is a Palestinian former University ofFlorida professor who is currently on his 58th day of a water-only hungerstrike. He is protesting his maltreatment by the U.S. Department of Justice(DOJ) which violated an earlier plea agreement that absolved Dr. Al-Arianfrom any further cooperation with the government. According to his lawyer,the DOJ wanted Dr. Al-Arian to testify before a grand jury in Virginia.

When he refused, citing his plea agreement, he was sentenced up to 18 months injail.Dr. Al-Arian is currently being held at a medical facility in NorthCarolina. Family members who recently visited him reported that he had lost 53 pounds, equivalent to more than 25 percent of his body weight. He is no longer able to walk or stand on his own.

More information on Dr. Al-Arian's ordeal can be found in the transcript ofa recent interview with his wife, Nahla Al-Arian. See:http://www.democrac ynow.org/ article.pl? sid=07/03/ 16/1410255ACTIONWe ask all people of conscience to demand the immediate release and end to Dr. Al- Arian's suffering.

Call, Email and Write:

1- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Fax Number: (202) 307-6777
Email: AskDOJ@usdoj. gov

2- The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
(202) 225-0072 Fax
John.Conyers@ mail.house. gov

3- Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(299029)224-4242
senator_leahy@ leahy.senate. gov

4- Honorable Judge Gerald Lee
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314

Thank you, Val