Autumn

Autumn

by | Oct 12, 2022 | Nature

I love autumn. The cool, clear nights, the cold, foggy mornings, the cloudless blue skies and Goldilocks temperatures during the day, the sunsets with those endless gradations of blue followed by a final blaze of orange-to-pink-to red. The low angle of the sun at this...
Lemon Cucumbers

Lemon Cucumbers

by | Oct 5, 2022 | Nature

In our garden four perfectly round lemon cucumbers sit among a tangle of vines, the largest is the size of a baseball, two of them look like ghostly billiard balls and the third is just downright tiny. The two largest ones have begun to take on streaks of pale yellow...
A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

by | Sep 27, 2022 | Friends & Family

Some cliches are just plain silly: A watched pot never boils, The bigger they are, the harder they fall. The list goes on. However, sometimes a cliche is spot on, like this one: A picture speaks a thousand words. Since the invention of photography in the mid 1800’s,...
Camp Loma

Camp Loma

by | Sep 10, 2022 | Friends & Family, Music

The narrow two-lane road that leads us in is a snake; a slithering S  winding its way over the Santa Cruz Mountains. Civilization slowly melts away as we make our way through a tunnel of redwood, bay laurel and madrone trees, over dry creek beds, a cascade of small...
A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words

Where Do You Go When You Die?

by | Sep 6, 2022 | Meditations

Where do you go when you die? At one time or another every human has asked this question. The fear of death is the fear of the unknown, what happens to you after you die is the deepest and most perplexing unknown of them all. Philosophers, shaman, mystics, artists,...