A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Went into San Francisco for the Giants World Series parade and got a spot a few floors up over Market Street, right around Montgomery and Lotta's Fountain.…
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No fog at Point Reyes, which apparently is rare enough to note — the lighthouse was built 275 feet down the bluff in 1870 precisely because the fog out here…
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Into San Francisco for a postseason game at AT&T Park — Giants and Cardinals, the league championship series. The crowd was backed up all the way through the…
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Backyard Halloween party in Walnut Creek, two weeks ahead of the actual day. The costume count: a Spider-Man who kept the mask on the whole afternoon, a Snow…
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Sydney gave us a bit of everything over these few days, all of it within walking distance of the harbour — properly Port Jackson, a drowned valley estuary that…
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Didn't go far today. An afternoon in with the two of them, who spent most of it pressed cheek to cheek and cracking each other up over something I never did…
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Kindergarten starts today. The outfit had clearly been settled well in advance: rainbow-striped dress, gray cardigan with rhinestones on one shoulder, teal…
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Somewhere in the middle of a few days by the water, and today went almost entirely to the beach. The sand here runs a long way under a wooded bluff, and in the…
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Drove up to Sonoma for an afternoon walk around the town square — which turns out to be the largest plaza in California, laid out in 1835 by Vallejo himself.…
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Drove down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Cannery Row — entrance right at the corner of David Avenue — and went straight for the jellyfish galleries. Sea…
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