A minimalist archive, moments in time.
The bay half of the weekend first: we drove down the west shore to Emerald Bay and worked along the overlooks above the state park. From up on the rocks you…
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Day after the Fourth, and half of Northern California had the same idea about Santa Cruz. The Boardwalk beach was packed end to end — a mile of public sand on…
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A few slow days in the East Bay, nothing on the calendar and no reason to hurry. One stop was Lemos Farm — the old red Farmall parked out front with a…
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Over to San Francisco for the day. We started with a hike — the trail was dusty and the brush already dried out to that June straw color, but the little one…
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Took a weekend drive out along the coast, over the bridge and up Highway 1 to the overlooks above Muir Beach. Windy up there — whitecaps all the way out, and…
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Family hike day at Muir Woods, and the weather cooperated completely — warm, clear, spring in full effect. The baby rode the whole way in the backpack carrier,…
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Out back this afternoon with the little one, who came out to the sandbox carrying the white wooden car and did not put it down the whole time. The sand itself…
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Chicago, and the clearest April day the lake could have handed us. We went up the Sears Tower — 110 stories, finished in 1973, still Sears for another year…
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Another clear day on the Bay — no fog, which I gather is not guaranteed even in March — so the whole day stayed along the water. Started at the marina near the…
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Holiday trip week in San Diego, working through the last days of 2007. Yesterday evening the sun dropped straight into the Pacific from where we're staying —…
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