A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Started the day on Oxford Street, where Union Jacks were still strung across the road overhead, then cut into Hyde Park to get away from the traffic. The…
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Late May evening drive, and this time I went farther than usual — out to Englebright Lake in the foothills west of Grass Valley, a reservoir on the Yuba that…
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Drove down the hill to Reno for a Sunday afternoon Aces game at Greater Nevada Field. May 7, and the clouds coming over the Sierra kept threatening something…
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Spring skiing at Palisades today, which meant fleece instead of a shell and soft snow by mid-morning. Bluebird all day, not a lift line worth mentioning that I…
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Day trip down to San Luis Obispo, mostly because it's April and Truckee is still working through its snowbanks. SLO, meanwhile, has hawthorn blooming pink over…
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Baseball season is why we timed the trip — the Padres billboards are up at Petco Park again, three batters twenty feet tall over the palm trees, and downtown…
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Passing through Denver on a layover, and with time to burn I found one of the outdoor decks DEN keeps open — there are three of them, which seems generous for…
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Out along the Thames before sunrise, starting at the Millennium Bridge with St Paul's dome and a red-lit crane on the far bank and a few early walkers already…
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Drove down to San Francisco for dinner and a Warriors game. Dinner first, at a place with brass everywhere — a little table lamp shaped like a mushroom, a hazy…
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The March storm finally let up enough to go outside, and outside is mostly gone. The snow off the back of the house has piled higher than my head — I stood…
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