Gene DeSmidt
Gene is an old friend who has done a lot of building at Tassajara. -dc
the small photos on this page are thumbnails - click on them to enlarge

10-03-18 - Recordings of some of Gene's songs including two recorded by Marty Balin

9-30-18 Gene on Marty Balin who died yesterday

Gene's The Story of Indian Bones (found at Tassajara) PDF from Winter 1995 Wind Bell - read it on his site in the Tassajara Project section - posted also on Esselen Indians page

3-31-05 - A note on Michael Wynn RIP

Hope Springs Post Beam Tass Road Tass Shadows

And about this photo (not by Gene) he writes this poem:

THEY ARE NOT HEROES
JUST 5 PRACTICING ZEN MONKS.....
IN DIFFERENT ROBES !

4-25-08 - Two photos from Tassajara from Gene DeSmidt

"ARRANGE THE WOODEN
RAFTERS...TO ALLOW THE TREE
TO GROW THROUGH THE ROOF !"

zEN mAN (observing a new roof at Tassajara Zen Monastery up at the shop being built with a huge hole for 2 Sycamore tree sections to continue their search for the sky)

   " SUCH A SMALL TRICKLE
OF PURE WATER CAN CREATE
NEAR PERFECT CIRCLES !"

zEN mAN (observing a minor amount of the creek passing through an ancient rivulet carved into a sandstone rock making continual round ripples...projecting outward ...... occurring in the springtime near the walking bridge at Tassajara Zen Monastery)

A Picture and a Poem from Gene DeSmidt

2009 Tassajara photos

Fall 1993 Wind Bell with piece by Gene on Tassajara Bath deconstruction

A photo of the Tassajara waterfall he sent in 2006.

and, Gene adds, if you need a vacation:
http://vrbo.com/119803  or
http://vrbo.com/170105

Search for "desmidt" in the site search box on the Home or What's New pages for more links to something on Gene.

10-03-18 - Recordings of some of Gene's songs
                  -  Youtube at those links