Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Coyotes In The Mist
On Christmas Day, heading back across the darkening Yosemite Valley to the Awahnee to get ready for the Bracebridge Dinner later that evening, through the mist I spied a pair of coyotes looking for supper about 400-yards out and on the move across a snow-covered meadow:
Let me strive to forget my disappointments with the trivialities [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals, travel by Will
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Next — Perhaps Last Of The Year — In My Occasional Series Of Stray Dog Chronicles
Seeing as today’s bike commute would mark my 200th of the year, I didn’t let a little morning rain dampen my desire to pedal to that milestone and to work (OK, it was more than a little; I was drenched by the time I got to Westchester).
Were I made of less water-tolerant stuff I would [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals by Will
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Blooooooooo Moooooooon
Tonight’s blue moon, two days from its full stage on the last day of the year and the decade, as seen from my office window via the 6.1x digital zoom of my cam with the lens against the eyepiece of my 12×25 binoculars and the whole thing balanced on my knee with my leg propped [...]
No Comments » - Posted in photography by Will
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Gotta Love A Good Work-Around
In the big scheme this ain’t much. But in the annals of making lemonade outta lemons when it comes to improv’d bike repairs, it’s worth mentioning.
It all started the week before last when one side of my left pedal malfuntioned while on the way to work. Now these aren’t your normal every-day platform pedals like [...]
No Comments » - Posted in DIY, biking by Will
Monday, December 28th, 2009
The Story Of My Mother And The Mountain Lion In Yosemite On Christmas Eve
So here’s how things went down. After breakfast Christmas Eve morning in the amazing Awahnee dining room followed by a visit to the Yosemite Village store to pick up some hairspray for mom (which she’d forgot to pack), it was decided she would hang out at the hotel while Susan and I did some sightseeing.
So [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in adventure, animals, nature, travel by Will
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Yosemite Christmas Pix Are Up!
Susan’s still working on her collection, but got her awesome pix up here, and I managed to cull some 185 snaps from the more than 400 I shot during our three days in Yosemite — such as this one, taken by a kind gentleman who offered to snap Susan and me backdropped by Half Dome [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in seasonal, travel, updated by Will
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Music To My Ears
In 1985 I decided I was going to be a tenorsax man. That’s me on the right (click to biggify) shortly after I went to Baxter-Northup Music Company on Ventura Boulevard somewhat on a lark and bought a used Bundy on a two-year payment plan. She was not at all pretty to look at as [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in music by Will
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
First Look: YoseMIGHTY
We’re back and blown away. Yosemite these past three days was just soul-charging, and truly so unique an environment was a wondrous one within which to spend Christmas.
Oddly enough I did not come back from my first-ever visit to that miraculous place with 1,256 pictures as I would usually from an excursion of such length [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in adventure, seasonal, travel by Will
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Oh Christmas Tree
Susan and I are getting ready this morning to head off with my mom to Yosemite for what we’re anticipating will be a most breathtaking and soulful Christmas adventure. Here’s hoping your holidays are everything you want them to be.
PS. If the embed above of our tree isn’t working, here she is on another [...]
No Comments » - Posted in seasonal by Will
Monday, December 21st, 2009
This Morning’s Left Hook Brought To You By The U.S. Army
This past week or so I’ve been testing out a pair of sunglasses that have a built-in video camera. Pretty low-rent James Bond type stuff. The 320-x240 footage leaves lots to be desired and so does the audio — all the worse to low-quality immortalize a Venice Boulevard incident this morning on my bike [...]
