Last Blush

Linda’s blog, First Blush features, as usual, a picture taken in the morning light. Here is a picture taken from almost the same place on Tomales Bay, as the sun was setting. Hence, ‘Last Blush’… and, yes, we’re on a weekend getaway…

Precious Grace

We went to church early today (8:30), and then to a healing service conducted by our friend, the Rev. Frannie Hall-Kieschnick (who also preached today).
At the healing service, a man none of us knew said that his wife had just died, he was out of work and about to be evicted - his plight put […]

First big storm of 2008

In previous years, a more able-bodied I would rush out and photograph a swolen San Francisquito creek (it runs behind the house across the street from our back gate), flooding and other watery fallout from the storm.
This year, I’m reduced to snapping the back yard (albeit with the new Leica Tri-Elmar), given current mobility (or […]

Clario, digital zoom and big CCDs

Clario arrived just in time for Christmas. Clario (Linda and I are very silly and name many inanimate objects in our household - the name is derived from the Latin clarus for ‘clear’) is a replacement for Silvio, an older Lumix FX-9 that had produced many spectacular pix on Linda’s blog before losing an accidental […]

R.I.P. Silvio

Silvio, Linda’s (and First Blush’s) faithful camera had a little accident yesterday. He (we’ve always thought of him as a ‘he’) somehow slipped from Linda’s pocket and landed, as luck would have it, in water.
We’ve kept him in a warm place hoping he would dry out, but sadly, after one brief wimper, he’s not budged […]

Glorious Manhattan morning

Spouse Linda appears to have lucked into a glorious Sunday in Manhattan: I remember well jogging around the Central Park reservoir on a clear, beautiful morning - gives me goosebumps. And she was good, and went to church at St. Bartholomew’s after her run…

Bad Chris

So, Linda’s in NYC, and I decided to use the opportunity for a little treat. Linda’s been really good about keeping me on an oncologically-correct diet with lots of fish, vegetables and other healthy stuff. There’s also the issue that 12 months of high-dosage steroid therapy has left me 20 pounds overweight, despite being careful […]

Steroid countdown

Little nervous this morning as we face our first 5mg steroid day in the continuing ramp-down. Earlier this year, when I tried to ramp the steroids down, we got into trouble around 5 mg - the left side started to shut down as brain edema - an artifact of last December’s radiation therapy - returned […]

Pretty picture

Linda captured dawn over Big Dish very nicely this A.M. I’m not alone in noticing that Linda has become a pretty good photographer since she took over Silvio a year ago…

Fall colors come to Menlo

The leaves hereabouts are just starting to turn colors, as Linda points out in her First Blush post this morning. She, I and Cassie made what was, for me, about a 30-minute circuit of the neighborhood where I tried hard to make my wobbly leg walk correctly without using the right side to compensate for […]

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