A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Quick spring trip down to Santa Monica. We walked the Third Street Promenade first — jacarandas starting to bloom over the walkway, restaurant patios spilling…
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Traded Truckee for San Diego and a few days of sun and coast in mid-April. First morning was a lagoon trail north of the city — chaparral scrub on the bluff,…
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Day trip down the eastern side, aimed at Shepherd Creek in Inyo County. Before leaving the lodge we sat a while by the fire pit near the stream that runs…
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A Monday at home in Truckee, nowhere to be, so the day was mostly the yard and the dogs. The snow is going but not gone — still deep enough out back that the…
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Bluebird ski day up on Donner Pass, no wind to speak of. We split: the kid went for the downhill side, orange helmet and mirrored goggles, and the base area…
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A bluebird day at Palisades, twenty minutes down the road, and we took it. Not a cloud all morning — the lake sat flat and blue below the runs on the Tahoe…
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A birthday weekend, close to home. We started down at Donner Lake, where the sun was low over the water and the snow along the shore has melted back to patches…
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Bluebird day at Palisades, and midweek besides, so the drive over from Truckee was easy and the hill felt roomy. Not a cloud anywhere, which after the weeks of…
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Christmas in Truckee this year, and the snow did not let up for it. The trees behind the house went completely white, and any walk out the front door meant…
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Woke up to real snow for Christmas Eve — the pines out back loaded down with it and more still falling. We went out to stand around in it for a while, no…
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