A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Took the dog out to walk Squaw Creek and see the spring runoff. The crest is still holding a lot of snow, so the water should keep coming for a while yet — the…
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Gatsby Jazz Club night for the high school jazz band, so the whole house got into costume — flapper dress and pearls for one of us, pinstripes and a bow tie…
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Family weekend on the coast, all four of us down from Truckee to Dana Point. The first afternoon a rain cell hung offshore while we looked down at the harbor…
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Full day out of the Cathedral City house, still on the few-days-in-the-desert plan. We drove up to Joshua Tree first, clouds stacked over the ridges and the…
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Easter at the house this year. The table got the full treatment — white cloth, the leaf-pattern plates, candlesticks, a bowl of dyed eggs in the middle. More…
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For the birthday weekend we went up-valley first, to Duckhorn, where the vines are still bare and pruned back hard, mustard and cover crop running bright green…
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No outing this time — snowed in for the weekend, right here in Truckee. The storm has been dumping since it started and hasn't let up, and the snow is now past…
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Quick February trip, Truckee to Miami Beach, and today became the long-walk version of South Beach — the neighborhood runs from about 23rd Street down to South…
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A graybird day on the hill, which around here means the storm has mostly moved on but the sky hasn't decided yet. Every tree was still carrying its full load…
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Drove over from Truckee for a tailgate with friends in the Palisades lot. Fresh snow on everything — the trees up the canyon were still loaded, and clouds kept…
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