A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Traded the fog on the California coast for the U.S. Virgin Islands, and this day ran mostly dock to dock. Somewhere in the middle of it we stood in a courtyard…
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One last hike before the flight home, so we drove out to Mori Point in Pacifica and walked up the bluff into the fog. The whole town was under it — you could…
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High summer at Donner Lake — Truckee Lake, before the Donner Party got it renamed. Three miles long, three quarters of a mile wide, sitting at 5,936 feet, and…
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Kevin got married today, on a hillside above the Ojai valley with the orchards laid out below and mountains hazy behind everything. Full sun, no shade at the…
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Two birthdays celebrated at once, at a lake outside Chicago — an 80th and a much smaller number, sharing one afternoon. The 80th cake was the star: a full…
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Millennium Park first, because everyone told us you can't skip the Bean, and everyone was apparently told the same thing — the plaza was packed shoulder to…
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Summer days in Minato meant orbiting Tokyo Tower without ever going up it. Started through the Daimon gate and walked toward Zōjō-ji, which has been the…
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Started the morning at Donner Lake, just west of Truckee. Walked a stretch of the north shore path — gravel underfoot, willows crowding the waterline, the…
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Fourth of July on Donner Lake, and by afternoon the whole lake had the same idea — jet skis running the middle, boats crossing each other's wakes, the water…
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Fourth of July week up at Donner and Squaw, and the snow still hasn't given up. From the road above the lake we watched a parade of old VWs roll past with…
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