The dogs and I were out recently, a pleasantly foggy dawn, enjoying the new day. When we got out to the misty campground, looking over to the boat ramp, the sky looked like this:
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Fog and the Flock
Posted in animals, birding, dogs, nature, photography, walking on November 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Scorched Flora & Snatched Fauna
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography, walking on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I seem to have developed a thing for trying to save scrawny trees. When I had such a notion last spring, near where I work at SF’s Civic Center, it met an ignoble end.
Sometime earlier this summer there was a fire in the old campground out on the former naval air station, where I walk the pups. The kids sometimes party [...]
A Big Blow
Posted in gardening, life, nature, photography on October 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mrs. Ombud and I were watching a movie (Little Fish, I think) when the phone rang. We don’t always pick up during a movie, figuring they’ll leave a message if it’s important, but when I heard my next door neighbor’s voice I hit pause and got the phone. He was talking about some large branch that [...]
Drifting Loose
Posted in animals, dogs, photography, walking on October 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The boat first appeared in late spring. With the battered economy, perhaps its owner had abandoned it, and it had drifted into the boat ramp harbor, and there it sat, mired in the mud. I thought the angle was kind of arresting, so I took a few pictures of it.
A Follow-up on Several Fronts
Posted in animals, cooking, e-scrapbook, gardening, nature, pets, photography on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, the pears. I’m rather amazed at how reluctant these pears are to ripen. This picture was taken in early September, and you can see how green they remain:
Molly Cat Gets A Bit Bolder
Posted in animals, cats, dogs, pets, photography on August 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As I mentioned back here, a cat has joined our household–for the first time since our dear 20-year-old Millicent passed on, back on Groundhog’s Day in 2006. (I hope that, a la the Bill Murray movie of that name, Millicent has moved on to another of her lives.)
Various and Asundry and Asides on a Sunday
Posted in animals, dogs, gardening, life, pets, photography on August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We’re getting ready to leave town, which means my life is once again a half-baked scramble to do a to-do list before it to-does to me.
Looking Out My Backdoor
Posted in birding, gardening, music, nature, photography on July 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Do you remember Creedence Clearwater Revival? Have you heard “Looking Out My Backdoor“? I’ve been reminded of the song recently, while out on our back porch.
A different pace
Posted in animals, books, dogs, e-scrapbook, entertainment, photography, top of the world, travel, walking on June 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Battle of the High School Marching Bands
Posted in entertainment, music, photography, walking on May 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
We live on a very wide street; counting the parking lanes, it’s seven lanes wide. It’s so wide that, each May, it’s used for a high school marching band competition.
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