Return to Big Dish
We returned to Stanford’s Academic Preserve (aka The Big Dish) today for the first time in many months. My mobility, while still pretty slow-paced, has improved enough (since last December’s low point) to allow me to return, and walk for an hour, at some of my very favorite venues.
I’ve stopped obsessing on how, for 17 […]
Gray morning in Menlo
Spring leaves on a liquidambar tree are silhouetted against a gray morning sky as I took my morning walk today. Six-tenths of a mile in 35 minutes…
A quiet moment
The midday sun streams into our suite at Hotel Drisco in San Francisco. After yesterday’s landmark walk, I worked out for 45 minutes at UCSF’s Millberry Center this morning, and returned to our room to find this charming display of light and shadow. Another very pretty - and warm - day in San Francisco…
A real wintery day
Friend and former classmate Kevin McKean offers this:
“Thought you might enjoy the view from our back deck overlooking a parking lot and the Hudson Palisades from the village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. ”
The second weather report from a former classmate: I hereby invite all former classmates to forward their weather in words and pictures…
Return to Baylands
Spouse Linda dragged me out of bed to Palo Alto’s Byxbee Park this A.M. where we both walked for an hour (Linda making considerably more distance than I). I hadn’t been to Baylands for more than a year - it was good to be back, mobility problems notwithstanding…
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 […]