A minimalist archive, moments in time.
First day of a few days of spring skiing at Big Bear, and the morning made it look like a bad call — clouds sitting right down on the lake, the far ridgeline…
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Drove up to the Flower Fields in Carlsbad for an early March weekend of flowers. The ranunculus are already going, earlier in the season than I'd have guessed,…
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Stepped outside at home in Lake San Marcos as the sun dropped under a heavy cloud bank, dark to the north but clear along the horizon. That looked like the…
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The dog made her position clear before we ever left — climbed straight into the open suitcase on the bed and lay there, tongue out, daring anyone to zip it.…
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January visit home to Encinitas. First stop was the cat lounge with the giant blue cat painted floor to ceiling across the back wall. Three orange cats had the…
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Our winter trip to Cabo landed us at the dolphin center on the Malecón in San José del Cabo — the newer one, right in front of the Hyatt Ziva in the Zona…
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Mammoth for a change instead of our own hills, which meant a longer drive and a much longer line — Broadway Express was backed up through the whole corral when…
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Skied Palisades in the morning, two days into the year. From the ridge you can see straight across to Tahoe — the lake surface sits around 6,225 feet and the…
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First day of 2019, and we rang in the New Year on snow, all four of us. Before anyone got into ski clothes there was couch time with the dogs — the little…
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Still holiday week, so the days are loose. Took the dog down to the coast at low tide and let her work the flat rocks under the sandstone cliffs — she picked…
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