On Thursday night, our first at Lucia Lodge in the village of Lucia on the coast, Susan and I marveled not only at the full moon that had risen above the Santa Lucia Mountains at the exact time the sun set over the seas to the west, but also the fact that one of my …
Call it coincidence or an ultimate eventuality, but next to my Sunday edition of the New York Times (for which I have the privilege of paying a whopping discounted rate of $7.45 per week for seven-day delivery) sat a solicitation from the L.A. Times encouraging me to return from my seven months of self-imposed exile …
It’s certainly wonderful to be home, but pardon me if I dispense with the trivialities of being back from our fantastic four-day Highway 1 Getaway and get right to what was one of several highpoints of our trip: Big Sur’s Mill Creek Trail. The Mill Creek Trail was a revelation — even moreso as it …
There is something about rampaging unstoppable wildfires and the literal and figurative pall they cast that both agitates and depresses me to marked degrees. It’s like such disasters create an internal tug-of-war wherein I want to got to irrational extremes — on one end I want to seek out destroy anyone even remotely resembling a …
Not sure how it got there, but this morning I found a katydid in the kitchen, on the inside of the window next to the breakfast nook. After catching it up in a mason jar I took it outside where it crawled out onto the leaves of our Carolina cherry tree and then allowed me …
Don’t ask me: I don’t know why I came to call this behavior of Pepper’s “glarring” it just fits. And yes, I do know that pepper has the littlest head on the biggest body.
As snapped from the junction of Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards in Silver Lake Thursday evening (click for the bigger picture):