Got the many photos up from last week, when I took my grandson (and his mother) on his first camping trip, in Yosemite Valley! Look below…
Posts under ‘California’
a “mini” vacation
Free is good. A free Mini for a day is very good. The Wife — courtesy her entry in a public transportation agency’s contest — ended up with a free Zipcar for a day. And as luck would have it, she invited me to come along. For the car, she picked a Mini and left [...]
riding against the rain
The first chance for appreciable rain in the “Athens of California” is forecast for Halloween night. And our fall weather pattern has settled in, with the rays of dawn struggling to slip through the fog. Faced with the wet stuff and signs of winter on the horizon, it was time to make tracks. Warmed up [...]
what California water shortage?
Thanks to climbing flows, plans for the club fishing trip this Saturday to the Stanislaus River have been abandoned. Guess I’ll clean the nine months of accumlation from my desk instead. We were to hit the Two Mile Bar section after flows hovered just above 200 cubic feet per second; eminently fishable. The flows climbed [...]
catching up
Summer. A time of day dreaming punctuated at irregular intervals of reaching for those dreams. Tends to keep me away from the keyboard. The weather here in Northern California has alternated between the glorious “summer pattern” and hellish heat. Mix in a gloomy shroud of wildfire smoke and you’ve got some downright ugly stay-in-the-house days. [...]
