A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Took the dog up into the open space this morning while the grass is still green — another few weeks and these hills go brown for the year. The mustard is at…
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Down in San Diego for the weekend, and the zoo in Balboa Park took the whole sunny middle of it. The place turns a hundred this year — opened 1916 — and it…
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Newport Beach today, and the Balboa Fun Zone on the boardwalk — eighty years old and still running its little strip of rides between the harbor and the shops.…
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Drove up to Mendocino County for Valentine's Day. The vines are all bare this time of year, pruned back to the wire, but the mustard is up between the rows and…
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Snow overnight, enough that the deck railing carried a rounded white cap of it this morning, and then the storm cleared out and left a hard blue sky over…
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Catalina first. Avalon from the air on the way in, the whole harbor curled around its moorings with the casino out on the point, fog sitting low on the ridges…
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Second day of the new year, up in Placer County snow. We rode the tram out of Olympic Valley and the floor of the canyon dropped away fast — the whole bowl…
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Christmas down in Sacramento this year, which for us means driving away from the snow instead of toward it. Santa hats on everybody, the girls posing by the…
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In Seattle for early December, and by dusk we were at the corner of Pike and 1st, under the big neon of the Public Market Center sign. The market has run at 85…
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Halloween morning meant the costume parade at the elementary school in Walnut Creek, so we were out on the blacktop with everyone else before the bell. Our…
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