A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Took the dog up a canyon trail on the Placer County side of Tahoe today, and the joke of the whole thing is that it's July and we ended up standing on snow.…
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Camping weekend out in the Anza-Borrego backcountry. We towed the pop-up out from San Marcos and set it up near one of the little cabins at the campground,…
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Didn't go anywhere this weekend, and that was the whole point. Bandit spent most of the morning on the bed, standing over me and refusing to settle, ears going…
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Down to San Marcos for the play first — Alice in Wonderland, a full stage of kids under red light. The Queen of Hearts stalked the front in a crown and striped…
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A few slow days at home in San Marcos, mostly spent watching the dogs figure each other out. They started the morning packed into the same crate, the tan one…
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An April weekend down in the desert. Started in Palm Springs, where the walk along Palm Canyon Dr turned up the old Robinson's Department Store at number 333 —…
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The drive out of the desert climbed through switchbacks with rock cut close on one side and a guardrail on the other, slow going behind an SUV that had the…
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April came in on Coronado Beach — the stretch the local guides call Central Beach, along the ocean side of the Hotel del Coronado. It faces the open Pacific…
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Up early enough to catch the clouds breaking orange over the ridge behind the house, then off for a spring day learning at Batiquitos Lagoon. The lagoon was…
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Spring skiing at Mammoth, and the sky did not produce a single cloud all day. The girls lined up with their mom at the top of a run early on, a gondola sliding…
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