A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Halloween stretched into a whole week this year, ending in Día de los Muertos. The girls settled on their costumes early — one a cracked porcelain doll,…
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A few days of camping and hiking down in Alpine County, at Lake Alpine in the Stanislaus National Forest — right at the tail end of the season, since the…
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A day out to a lighthouse and a waterfall, which on Kauai turns out to be an easy pairing. First stop was Kilauea Point on the north shore, where the…
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Started slow in Poipu — two drinks at an oceanside table, a cucumber wheel and an orchid riding the tall one, tiki torches out on the point past the hedge.…
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A few days of watching weather on the coast, and this was the day it paid off. Kauai's south shore kept trading rain for sun all morning — big surf stacking up…
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Labor Day weekend, and Santa Barbara had it all going on. East Beach runs along Cabrillo Boulevard east of the harbor, and even at sundown it was still busy —…
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We rolled the green-and-white striped awning out over the patio to cut the afternoon heat. From underneath it, the canvas edge blocks the glare but leaves the…
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A few days in Healdsburg, and the first afternoon settled into the pattern the rest would follow. Beers at Bear Republic — founded right here in 1995, the…
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Swim meet Saturday, SSC against RSM, and the whole club showed up for it. Pennants strung across every lane, canopies packed shoulder to shoulder along the…
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Partway through our mid-July week on Coronado now. The mornings start grey with the marine layer, and it doesn't seem to bother anyone — the beach fills up…
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