Six Years (+ Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice)
[Sunday, San Francisco, March 2012.] Today: a glowering, gloomy sky with rain in the forecast. Last week was the rainiest it’s been here in months …
Home, and Getting Back to It
[Near Golden Gate Park, February 2012.] I like to think that the best part of traveling is coming home, especially when you like home as …
My City by the Bay (+ Mixed-Berry Muffins)
[San Francisco at dusk, January 2012.] The other night after work I walked home because I’d sat still all day and my legs were twitching …
Sunny October, I Begin Again
[San Francisco, October 2011.] Fall: utterly, truly. The light is fantastic, slanting against San Francisco’s buildings in the late afternoons and curling around the cyprus …
That Old Fall Feeling
[Inverness, September 2011.] Fall is settling in though the calendar promises a few weeks more of summer — but look, the apples hang fat and …
How it’s Going
[Blackberries, Sebastopol, September 2011.] This past week or so has involved lots of blackberries. Loads. Some I didn’t pick and many I did, and I …
Around Yosemite
[Yosemite Valley from above, August 2011.] It’s difficult to do justice to Yosemite through words though I can try — the waterfalls, especially this summer …