A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Woke up and the back door wouldn't tell us anything — snow packed against the glass higher than my head, just a strip of sky and buried pine branches visible…
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The first big snow of the season finally landed on Truckee, and it did not hold back. The ponderosas in the yard spent the day dumping loads off their branches…
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Thanksgiving this year at the house above Donner Lake, up at 5,800 feet with snow still sitting on the roof next door and the snowshoes hung on the deck fence…
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A two-part day. First the band concert — a full stage of kids in black, tubas along the back row, the director in his striped shirt standing out against…
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Overcast the whole visit, and this day started across the water in Charlestown, out along the marina where the Bunker Hill Monument sits dead center on the…
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Midweek in our October week in Singapore, and the day ran exactly the way the trip has: temples first, Supertrees after dark. Morning at the Buddha Tooth Relic…
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Sixteenth birthday dinner tonight, everyone around the table at home in Truckee. After the plates were cleared out came the cake — layers with dulce de leche…
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An evening walk through Cambridge, started while the sun was still up and finished well after dark. We came in along a street of terraced houses and parked…
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First of a few days around Edinburgh, staying out in Musselburgh, and the train up hugged the coast most of the way — at one point a whole town spread out…
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Two days in London, and the first stretch of it was after dark, walking up the Mall toward Buckingham Palace. Admiralty Arch was hung with a row of white…
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