A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Vacation weekend up in Placer County, and the storms this month have buried everything. The pines along the trail are carrying so much snow they barely look…
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Between storms up here, and the whole basin showed it. Started at the Tahoe shore, where the plow berms have grown taller than the dock railings — you look out…
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New Year's Day, and nobody left the house. The first of 2017 went almost entirely to sleeping in, which felt like the right way to start. The kitten made the…
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Started with a walk along the creek, everything under fresh snow, the water running black between white banks. Ducked through a round concrete culvert at one…
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Clear morning over Donner Lake, water flat, snow only up on the granite toward the pass. We drove down to Tahoe's west shore for a walk on the cobble beach…
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First real snow of the season landed this week, so today was for going out to check on it. Started down at the lake — the shore rocks held a thin crust that…
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Thanksgiving morning up in Truckee, and the first thing to do was walk down to Donner Lake. Fresh snow on everything — the rocks along the shore, the…
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Up in Truckee for Thanksgiving, and the trees went in before the turkey did — both of them, the white one in the corner hung with the old glass ornaments and…
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A weekend of sun and fog down at Donner Lake, and it kept trading one for the other. First afternoon was clear enough to see the whole ridgeline through the…
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Got the Thanksgiving decorations out today, which mostly means the old wax pilgrims and turkeys. They come out earlier every year and I don't apologize for it.…
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