A minimalist archive, moments in time.
A few slow days on the mountain in mid-January, and this one moved at the same pace as the clouds. The sun spent the whole morning trying to burn through a low…
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New Year's Day at the Rose Bowl — Michigan and Alabama in the playoff semifinal. Before that, the Manhattan Beach pier still had its lit-up Christmas tree…
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Flew down from Truckee to close out the year in Marina del Rey. Downtown LA was visible from the plane on the way in, poking up out of a flat grey sprawl of…
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Christmas at the house this year. We kept the stove going most of the evening and the presents piled up under the tree until the plaid paper started spilling…
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Walked over to Craft & Logic around dusk. The patio heaters were going and the wreaths are up in the windows, and there was a decent crowd inside for a Sunday…
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The occasion was the Christmas dinner at Wolfson College. Before it, a stop at a pub whose entire ceiling is papered over in whisky boxes — hundreds of them,…
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Rain the whole way. The Shard still had its office lights on when I started out, and by the time I reached Tower Bridge Road the water was standing in sheets…
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Her seventeenth birthday, and we kept it at home in Truckee. Everyone crowded in for the usual round of selfies before dinner, the littlest one working through…
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Got to the water before the fog did anything about leaving. It sat in a band across the lake, hiding the far shore, and the surface was flat enough that the…
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Took the WoollyBear out for a few days camped in Tahoe National Forest, close enough to home that the drive barely counts. Set up in a stand of big pines with…
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