A minimalist archive, moments in time.
The deer came through the yard again this afternoon. First one on her own, picking her way past the old chairlift chair that hangs from the pine, chewing…
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Birthday tonight, celebrated at home in Truckee, everyone crowded into the kitchen. Presents happened at the counter, standing up, cheese and crackers within…
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A house weekend in Salem Lakes, Wisconsin — a long haul from Truckee, and a village that has only existed as one since 2011, when the old town of Salem merged…
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Nothing planned today, so I carried the cat out to the old chairlift swing under the big ponderosa. September in Truckee is like this — warm enough to sit…
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Walked up to Picnic Rock again, first weekend of September, and the lake was busy the way it only gets on a holiday weekend — wakes crossing wakes all the way…
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Deer in the yard again this afternoon — a doe and a smaller one working through the sagebrush under the ponderosas at the edge of the property. They stopped…
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Firewood day. Tahoe Donner runs its sale the last days of August, and at $54 a cord plus tax the only catch is you load it yourself. The mix is red fir, white…
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Down to Loon Lake for the August camping weekend. The site had room for everything — the trailer on the pavement, a couple of tents back under the trees, the…
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A few days camped on the west shore, down 89 past Homewood into the El Dorado County stretch near Tahoma. Close enough to home that it barely counts as…
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Loch Leven again, mid-July, with the dog. We started under a heavy gray sky at the little tarn near the bottom, where the grass along the far edge has come in…
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