Postcards

Yosemite: Mist and John Muir Trails

What a difference the season makes.

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.

Yosemite: Half Dome Hike

The journey, not the destination.

Death Valley

Through the valley of death.

Old Calton Burial Ground

2007-06-29. Old Calton Burial Ground.

Central Park

Castle Howard

Can fictional characters leave ghosts?

Whitby

To Whitby to see where Dracula lurked in England.

Lake District: Crinkle Crags

After a bracing English breakfast we spend the day on the fells.

Lake District: Silver How

A walk alone to Silver How…through Grasmere…and back to Langdale.

Haworth

Treading in the footsteps of the Brontes.

Little Moreton Hall

An afternoon at England’s best example of Tudor timber-framed manor. Discover a new food.

Mobberley: The Church Inn

Our neighborhood pub in its 6th century of operation.

Sierraville, California

Happily, none of us are weighed down by that sense of modesty that seems peculiar to many Americans.

Lake Tahoe 2005

Up early…wild and domesticated animals…pancakes in Truckee…plague at Lake Tahoe.