What a difference the season makes.
September 24, 2009
Mono Lake
The black stuff on the shoreline is not algae or seaweed. It’s masses of alkali flies. When you walk near them clouds of them rise. Luckily they’re not biting flies and don’t show the least bit interest in humans.
August 9, 2005
Lake District: Crinkle Crags
After a bracing English breakfast we spend the day on the fells.
August 8, 2005
Lake District: Silver How
A walk alone to Silver How…through Grasmere…and back to Langdale.
August 5, 2005
Little Moreton Hall
An afternoon at England’s best example of Tudor timber-framed manor. Discover a new food.
June 13, 2005
Sierraville, California
Happily, none of us are weighed down by that sense of modesty that seems peculiar to many Americans.
June 12, 2005
Lake Tahoe 2005
Up early…wild and domesticated animals…pancakes in Truckee…plague at Lake Tahoe.