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Detours: A California adventure… part 7; One day down…

Here we are, at the end of the first day of my three-day, detour-filled California road trip adventure. I know, I didn’t post yesterday. I got the flu… with a migraine… wheee… I had a great time, visiting that beach … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 4; Birds and beaches…

It is time to leave the lighthouse… which you can just see the corner of, over there to the right… and continue on the first leg of my epic, detour-filled, three-day jaunt along the coast of California. I guess I … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 2; The wild edge of America…

So where are we going, exactly, on this epic, three-day, detour-packed adventure down the coast of California, I hear you wondering? Do not be in such a hurry, fellow traveler! Like all good adventures, this one will unfold before us … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 1; Goodbye San Francisco…

I left my mom’s house on New Year’s Eve, after the Christmas madness, the house full of too many people, family drama, people getting sick, the double Christmas dinner, the exhaustion and post-Christmas letdown… and I stopped on Treasure Island … Continue reading

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Can a San Francisco Bay Area sunset be improved upon with digital artistic filters???… part 2…

Still no… but the emboss filter did come out kind of cool… Here is the original photo I took the other night. Nothing I did digitally comes close to that level of beauty. That being said, if these were bigger, … Continue reading

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Can a San Francisco Bay Area sunset be improved upon with digital artistic filters???… part 1…

Obviously, the answer is a resounding no. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to try it with a few of the photos I took the other night. And we might get some good art out of this experiment. … Continue reading

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Because, really, who ever gets tired of Bay Area sunsets???

So yeah, my two daughters and I, along with a couple of my brothers and a nephew and niece, all went down to that dog park overlooking San Francisco Bay. If I look happy, it is because I was just … Continue reading

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A vase that looks like a sunset, a heart trapped in glass… and a real sunset… that looks like a vase… maybe?

My mom loved the vase I made for her in my glass blowing classes. It now resides on top of her old player piano. My wife loved the little vase I made for her in colors that match our remodeled … Continue reading

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That crazy Christmas dinner… that we do twice… part 1…

Christmas dinner at my mom’s house in the San Francisco Bay Area has evolved into a complicated, two-headed beast. We do a full, traditional English Christmas dinner on Christmas day… and then we do it again the following day. It … Continue reading

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Christmas monkey!!!

Hey, don’t judge us… we have weird Christmas traditions. Okay, technically, giving cheap rubber masks as gifts isn’t really a tradition… yet… It might be, starting next year. My 94-year-old mother. She makes a good koala. Ummm…. We do have … Continue reading

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