For the last several years, I’ve kept a wooden bowl in my house, where I deposit receipts, papers, trinkets, and sea shells and sea glass throughout the year. And then on the last day of the year, I take them all out and sort through them, remembering the good and the bad, the hard things, and the wonderful things, that happened. It’s time for the 2016 edition. There’s no way around the hardest thing, the one that has colored the rest of my year: 2016 was the year my Dad died. So many times this year, I have wanted to…
Month: December 2016
Weekly Update: Dec 28, 2016
Wow, the last week of the year is here already. When I think about trying to put the whole year into a post, my head kind of explodes. As Charles Dickens wrote so long ago: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. So I’ll just stick to the last week in this post, that much I can handle. I did move from Sunset State Beach (and the all-night irrigation noise) to New Brighton a day early and was rewarded with this lovely sunset over Capitola. I will never not love this place, this view from…
Weekly Update: Dec 21, 2016
Yesterday was the last day of fall, today the first of the winter season. Seems like a good idea to show the last autumn sunset right about now. I spent most of the week at New Brighton State Beach, enjoying mostly daily walks down the long stretch of sand, and one evening, at low tide, walking along the cliffs to Capitola. It is a wondrous thing to walk below those towering structures and realized that a few epochs ago, they were 60 feet underwater. The seasons change, the planets change, and so life goes. Sometimes that life is pretty unexpected,…
Sunday Serenity: Purples Haze
With a lot of the US caught in the polar vortex and seeing seriously cold and snowy weather, I thought that sharing my favorite purple flowers might soothe souls and share the promise of springs to come, however far away that feels today. Only 91 days till Spring! You can keep count using this webpage, which might help during the rest of the winter storms that must be endured.
Weekly Update: Dec 14, 2016
Been a quiet week as far as actual travel and trailer stuff goes, because the focus has been on friends and catching up with them, along with a lot of beach walking, and getting Christmas presents mailed to the great-nieces. Some people might think I am here for the month of December for the holidays, but to be honest, I booked this month in Santa Cruz so that I would not miss the 11th birthday of one very special young man. I’ve been to every single birthday of his, and this one was as joyous as all the rest, celebrating…