Pictures from our favoritest nearby getaway, West Marin’s Tomales Bay and Point Reyes
It was an anniversary weekend so my apologies about the sap.

Molly made Beignets we ate on the porch looking for seals

Whales were spotted in these waters the next day

Moxie from the hot tub

Oysters from Drakes Farm. Just as superb as Hog Island

The [...]

If you are over 50, or share my last name, then you’ll be familiar with Miss Rheingold. For a couple decades from WWII until 1964, each year Rheingold Beer (made by Liebmann Brewery in Brooklyn, NY) would pick a Miss Rheingold woman in her twenties, in beauty pagent-style but actually based upon her wholesomeness [...]

Moxie’s right ear has recently started staying up and not flopping over as much as her left ear. I wonder if the left one will become more upright or will she continue to be two ears about things?

Any snow enthusiast on the West Coast will not be surprised that this year’s snow pack in the Sierra Nevadas is far below average. In fact it’s only 38% of average, and the lowest overall accumulation in 29 years. I was up in the Tahoe area four times this winter. Three of those times [...]

Three years ago today Molly and I got married. It truly has been wonderful to have such a stabilizing partner who loves to explore life as much as I do. She’s my biggest fan and my greatest inspiration.

Thanks Molly, from the bottom of my heart.

What we’re describing as colony collapse disorder is the rapid loss of adult worker bees from the colony over a very short period of time, at a time in the season when we wouldn’t expect a rapid die-off of workers: late fall and early spring
Honeybee colonies are disappearing worldwide. What should be thriving hives are [...]

Congrats to the Golden State Warriors who ended the season 16-5, 9 of their last 10, and 3 must win games to end the season. After 13 years, they and their coach from that last playoff team are going back to the NBA playoffs. They had the hardest second-half schedule of all NBA teams and [...]

In 1992 I moved to San Francisco and I was a fan of the Golden State Warriors by the end of that first winter. They made it into the playoffs the following year with future Hall of Famer Chris Mullins, as well as Tim Hardaway, Chris Weber, Latrel Sprewell (before he went off the [...]

We got shut out trying to ski into the Benson Hut this weekend by a massive Pacific front that dropped precipitation across the West Coast. When the high winds finally eased we set out in steady snow, low visibility and about 5 hours of day light. And I was really looking forward to it.
It [...]

Next weekend a group of us are hiking in to the Sierra Club’s Benson Hut, a sturdy mountain cabin at 8,350 feet about 6 miles south of Donner Pass. It’s a 4 mile hike from the the Mt Judah lift at Sugarbowl and offer access to what we hope will be some big fields of [...]