“Are you sure?” (Apparently not…we ended up with a Hank the Cowdog book)
Tag: Pictures
Speaking of pretexts, I was about to throw out (long overdue) my lone Shakespeare Santa Cruz shirt and wanted to test out my new phone’s camera. So here we go. Not pictured is the shoulder and sleeve discolored from falling down a hill during a hike on Kauai. The red-lava dirt permanently stained it, but […]
Someone put this up at a bus stop near where I work. I hope they know it causes a smile every day: Bus StopSanta Clara, California
View of Tor House and Hawk Tower from Scenic Drive, Carmel, CaliforniaI really enjoyed my tour of Robinson Jeffers’ Tor House on Friday. The setting was perfect–a storm was working its way toward shore–to admire Jeffers’ handiwork and his poems. So while I’m back at work and have to clean up after someone broke into […]
The most popular books this week with the above audience: Doctor Dolittle’s Circus–we should finish this book tonight and start on the next in the series this weekendCloudy with a Chance of MeatballsThomas and the Big, Big BridgeOlive the Other Reindeer–I think they are hoping to get a jump on Christmas
No, not the setting of the book, although that is important, too… I am sure other readers, when a book is mentioned, think back to where they were or their personal circumstances when first encountering that work. I was able to go hiking and exploring this past weekend thanks to my wonderful wife. Images similar […]
and we won’t go into how soon it will be to see if she still needs / feeds / etc. me. A picture from a day I couldn’t stop smiling…
No, not the picture of me from August 1982 (which I ran across this morning when looking for other files). Someone placed a hold on The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel at the library and I can’t renew it. Who knew it was in high demand? Unfortunately I had checked it out several weeks before I […]
Your cause of sorrowMust not be measured by his worth, for thenIt hath no end. (Macbeth Act V, Scene 8) Things that could not be known on that wedding day: Franklin Delano Roosevelt would complain of a headache the next day, passing away in nearby Warm Springs, Georgia Victory in Europe was less than a […]
Well, you can tell what we did this weekend, much to the chagrin of a few pumpkins. Not much in the way of links this week since the Chrees household has been busy with spookier things. That being said… Brideshead undermined (link is dead) It seems the recent movie version of Evelyn Waugh’s novel decided […]