A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Up at Palisades for the day, and this was evidently not one of the 300 cloudless days the resort likes to advertise. A gray shelf sat over the whole basin from…
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Christmas Eve, and all four of us on skis at Squaw Valley. Thin snow year so far but the groomers held up, and from the top of the runs you could see clear…
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Costume party day. The morning went to cookies — one of the girls ran the hand mixer in her elf pajamas and an apron, which turned out to be a preview of her…
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Got a round in during the morning of Thanksgiving weekend — clear sky the whole way, ponds everywhere on that course, yellow flowers thick along the banks.…
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Holiday kickoff day, our official start to the season, so everyone wore the part — the girls in Minnie ears with the polka dot bows, Santa hats and Christmas…
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Drove down to Anaheim for a pre-holiday weekend at Disneyland — mid-November, decorations already up, crowds not yet at full December strength. The girls wore…
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Halloween weekend, and the house in San Marcos was already done up before anyone put a costume on — a giant inflatable pumpkin-headed thing towering over the…
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Down to San Diego, and the whole plan was a Sunday afternoon observing the animals at the zoo in Balboa Park — the one that opened in 1916 and now holds more…
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First evening of a few days on the water, anchored in a bay below a hillside resort — cabins with pyramid roofs scattered up through the trees, a thatched…
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We're a few days into a stay on the hillside here, in a blue-railed place with a balcony that looks straight out over the water. Across Pillsbury Sound is Cruz…
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