quick takes-none fake’s

Escaping San Fernando Valley summer heat to idle away the balmy August days along the coast has hopes on high.

neptune as timekeeper

Monsoonal weather swept up from the south passing over the San Francisco Bay Tuesday. Warnings of the potential for lightening storms had been downgraded as the center of the weather system passed further offshore than had been forecast. Just west of Benicia’s harbor we sailed off our anchorage at Dillion Point. No two days are […]

Suisun Bay’s Flying Monkeys

Owl Harbor curves like a crescent moon in the delta off of the San Joaquin River. The entrance to the slough is landmarked by the scuttled remains of a tug and dredging crane abandoned decades ago. Boats vary in size and type. There are old motorboats, a newer 45’ ocean going catamaran. It wouldn’t be […]

I’m a glass half fool

This is the poster child for a piece of the western regions 184 million acres destined to be removed from production.

the scorching truth arrives

Much of what appears to be the disintegration of the Republican Party is perhaps simply a tantrum thrown by the fossil fuel lobby.

Frying Pan Mania

I’m negotiable on dairy, but could we just do the value added thing, you know artisanal cheeses perhaps, put Ben and Jerry in charge of making all the world’s ice cream. Yeah its expensive but so are iPhones and everybody has one of those.

American West Trickle Down

A clash of drought and civilization.

Plundering the pastoral

Planted plenty of romaine, arugula and red leaf lettuce. Offstage for more than a year I’ve grown accustomed to not having to chase the demon showman from town to town. Good lets grow tomatoes to celebrate. Squash and cantaloupe seem to be making a go of life here. I’m a lucky creative stiff. Swashbuckling for […]

sunlight catchers

I crave natural wines whispers of the fantastical, for small and simple, for being yourself.

Another Roadside Distraction

“A talent is a kind of imprisonment. You’re stuck in it, you have to keep using it, or else you get ruined by it.” Wallace Stegner