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 …
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 …
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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. …
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One of our loveable dawgz is beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Here’s something you don’t see everyday in Big City LA: a peregrine falcon perched and feasting from its kill on the ledge of the office building across from mine in Westchester’s Howard Hughes Center, To get this artificially zoomed footage I put my cam’s lens up against an eyepiece of an 12×25 set of binoculars …
Kneeling down to hoist up my loaded-up backpack from the club chair ottoman is usually the second to last thing I do before leaving for work in the mornings (the last thing being give the dogs a jerky treat before the bike and I head out the door). This morning, as I bent over to …
This morning while stopped on Redondo Boulevard between Adams and Jefferson trying to entice an entirely uninterested stray chihuahua to me for some kibble, I looked over and behind the fence of the house I was in front of I found this bunny, at right, just hanging out and grooming its coat while I tried …