A minimalist archive, moments in time.
London Eye day. Tickets come from a counter inside County Hall on Westminster Bridge Road, then you queue under the wheel itself, which is bigger from directly…
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Chicago, for a couple of summer days on the lakefront, and the first evening went to Navy Pier. Walked in under the red steel arch off Streeter Drive — the…
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The week on Maui settled into a pattern: showers move through in the morning, and when they clear there's a rainbow standing over the channel, dropping down…
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First stop in Kalamazoo was Bell's Eccentric Cafe on E. Kalamazoo Ave. — Michigan's first onsite brewery pub, open since 1993, after the state finally changed…
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Two parts to this one. The evening belonged to Navy Pier — in through the red steel arch off Streeter Drive, where the marquee was alternating between PARKING…
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Drove down to San Francisco with one thing on the agenda: the jellyfish gallery at the aquarium on Pier 39, Embarcadero and Beach. The gallery is called Go…
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Nothing further than the nursery today. The baby has fully figured out pulling up in the crib now — hands on the rail, standing there grinning like it's the…
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The week between Christmas and New Year's, which apparently everyone else also decided was the week for Disneyland. Main Street was solid people from the gate…
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Filing these together because they belong together: two holiday parades, one at each end of the same stretch of California. Disneyland first. The Christmas…
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Santa Claus came to the living room this afternoon. He apparently keeps a San Francisco address in December — the Fairmont's Santa Suite up on Nob Hill, 950…
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