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 …
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 …
One of our loveable dawgz is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
It’s always a treat to look out our north-facing windows after a storm such as the one earlier this week and see the distant San Gabriels dusted with snow. Not counting this past Thanksgiving weekend in Death Valley with its various blanketed mountain ranges, nor my trudge through the slush at the summit of the …
So it’s the morning after the morning after Halloween and the decorations all came down first thing yesterday, but in the spirit of my favorite night of the year and in tribute to what was our most extensive effort dressing up the the place (done as much for Susan and me as for anyone who …
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Happy Halloweek! In between my regular weekend chores, No. 1 Alabama baaaaarely holding on to beat Tennessee, and an ongoing mental cage match that pitted my flyweight creativity against some heavyweight procrastinatory frustrations battling it out as I tried to write a spooky tale to tell Sunday night at a storytelling event I’d been invited …
(click image for the bigger picture) A couple days of rains last week followed by some dewy mornings giving way to warm afternoons have startled the grasses from their seasonal subsoil slumber and sent them shooting up at the skies and sun so that they now blanket sections of the previously barren backyard a brilliant …