Surprise!

Friends Mike and Cathy were amazingly kind to host a birthday dinner for me last night. An already wonderful, and very generous event (the food was to-die-for good) became really memorable when John and Julie announced they are expecting in November. My ‘birthday present,’ pictured on Linda’s blog, was a pacifier labelled ‘Happy Birthday […]

Back to the blog…

We’ve been taking it easy lately, dealing with a steroid ramp-down which leaves big leg and hip muscles feeling weak. Apparently, all we can do is work on the muscles and try to rehab them. So Cassie and limped a mile this morning (I limped, anyway), and I snapped this shot of the morning sky. […]

A full, anxious day brings good news

Yet another MRI of my brain, taken this afternoon after 90 minutes in a GE Signa 1.5 Tesla MRI machine (actuallly among the more comfortable machines for long procedures). The tumor is near the top of this image just left of center, and it shows a void where once it showed a dense mass of […]

Birthday dinner for two

Birthday dinner last night, at the Village Pub, a favorite of both daughter-in-law Julie (right) and moi (our birthdays are 2 days apart).  We had a really good time and the food, as is usual at the Pub, was great…

Classic California

Linda’s fun weekend birthday ‘kidnapping’ included walking on the beach and watching alll the ‘Classic California’ activities like the surf scene. I was amazed at how many gray-haired - and female - surfers there were. It was very pleasant walking the beaches - temperatures were in the 70s and 80s. Cassie the dog and I […]

A whole new culture….

One end of Pismo Beach has a pier, and feels like a classic California beach town full of funky dives, surf shops, alll kinds of interesting little restaurants, et al. The other end has dunes where, for a fee, you can drive your 4-wheel-drive truck, ATV or Dune Buggy. Some of the dunes are also […]

We awake in Pismo Beach…

Sweet spouse Linda ‘kidnapped’ me yesterday, and after a pleasant 3-hour drive south in our trusty Ford Hybrid, we wound up in Pismo Beach just as the sun was settting. We had a very pleasant meal at the hotel - the Dolphin Bay - restaurant. This morning we’re going walking on the dunes…

Morning sky

Snapped the morning sky as Cassie and I made our way around the block this AM (and I’ll bet Linda’s First Blush entry is a prettier shot). Lately I have been feeling , not knowing how else to say it, ‘wobbbly’. I think it may be a fallout of the anemia: I just am not […]

Winter light brightens the Adobe courtyard

I was crossing the 14th-floor skybridge today when the pattterns on the ground below caught my eye. The low sun, the reflections from Adobe’s glasss office towers, made a pleasing image. Snapped with the Lumix DMC FZ50…

First Blush has a very nice photo today

Linda has really developed (no pun intended) as a photographer: I love her photo on First Blush today. Linda is working with a very compact Lumix, often in very low light….

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