Month: June 2008

Burnished California

Here are pictures I took today on my seven-mile hike with Anna in Tilden Park. My mother-in-law, Helen, once referred to the dry, summer hills of California as “burnished,” which (she would have known) derives from a Middle English word for “brown.” I’ve always thought it was an evocative description of the shine of brittle grasses at this time of year. This is a Flash gallery for a change. The link below the thumbnails will […]

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Narcolepsy

Saturday I decided to drive to Grass Valley to see Teej & Richard at the Rancho. The three of us got to yacking and stayed up way past our bedtimes—till about 3:00. Even so, we got up relatively early on Sunday (well, it was still morning) and I was impressed at how age has not diminished our ability to keep strange hours. Or so I thought. While Richard weed-whacked his acres, Teej and I went […]

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