A minimalist archive, moments in time.
A buck was working over the lawn when I looked out — head down in the clover, not bothered by anything. He got the yard to himself for a while. Then we…
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Drove down from Truckee for a September evening on the lake. The water was flat almost the whole time, hardly a wake anywhere, and the boats on their buoys…
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Southwest Michigan, staying out in Alamo Township — 36 square miles of fields and woods with fewer than four thousand people in it, just northwest of…
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Woke up in the rooftop tent with pine tops filling the mesh overhead — camped up at Webber Lake in Sierra County, close enough to Tahoe that everyone drives…
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Fog was the whole day. We drove the Avenue of the Giants into Humboldt Redwoods State Park and picked one of the short loops through the old growth — this is…
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A mid-August drive and a day at the lake — Independence Lake this time, up at 6,975 feet in Sierra County. The Jeep earned its keep on the way in: dirt road…
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Early August at Donner Lake, and the boat spent most of the day tied off at the dock with the tow tubes floating alongside — the red GO GO one bumping against…
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Drove down to the west shore for the afternoon and set up the chairs on the sand between the pines. Three sailboats were anchored just off the beach, and big…
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Took the Hobie out to Scotts Flat for a Sunday on the water. Down the hill from Truckee, worth the drive when I don't feel like fighting for a launch spot…
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Took the boat out for a summer afternoon of boating and tubing. Before we even left the dock the kids climbed all over everything — one of them planted in the…
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