The sun is streaming in today…a yellow sort of day I think…
Tag: beach
Memorial Day at the Beach
It’s been a lonnnggg wet spring here in the northwest… but we’ve just been given a gem of a gift…a brilliant sunny warm weekend at the beach…usually a July sort of thing. No wind… lots of bike rides and bay views… LOTS of beach time with Sidney (recreating a crab) looking at where the public […]
August Pursuits
August and December are months when, for me anyway, not much art gets made because of family, gatherings, celebrations, weather…and so on. And speaking of weather….we’re having a heat wave…last week three days in triple digits…so Tuesday when we left town it was already 99 but, blissfully, we arrived at the beach and it was […]
The 4th of July
Well, America. All that it means to us…the history, the narrative, the many wonderful people just trying to live a life. Maybe the fourth of July is when I can put aside the politics and the incessant bad news of NPR and just revel in what I think summer in America is…for me anyway… Pie […]
The Heart of the Summer
That’s what I always think the 4th of July is, the heart of the summer, the time of blueberries and peaches…even though there are still three more months ahead and only one behind…(too many years on the academic schedule I guess.) And for us the 4th of July means the beach…this year like most of […]
Taking the Short Cut
We had to leave the beach today… but when we got to the highway it was (as Doug would say) “a parking lot.” As we inched north we decided to take the “secret” shortcut…(I trust you not to tell anyone), (YAY…it was raining!) and head up Schooner Creek… When we got the beach house years […]
Happy to be Here…Mostly
I’m sort of mad today. Our beach time in this house dates from 1992. Our neighborhood is adorable… Rugosas and their rose hips line the path to the beach… the view of the Bay constantly changes and always enchants… …but there is a fly in the ointment. Tim. He owns the house next door […]
SUMMER!
Oh bliss…this is it, don’t you think? Berries… pie and birthdays dinners with neighbors (and here R had to borrow Evan’s garden gloves to open the champagne…) drives to the beach… More dinners… Thanks for the evening, you guys! heading home with a view of the Bay… …and GUYS…it isn’t even the 4th yet!
Persimmon Chutney and Sunsets
From the sublime to the sublime. We came to the beach on New Year’s day with the car full of projects and books and instruments (well…a ukulele anyway) AND the last few persimmons from Richard and Juli’s big persimmon harvest this late fall. R wanted to make persimmon chutney so we looked up recipes on […]
Catching Up…
Summer. Got to try to live in the moment, so the narrative suffers. Here’s a digested version of what’s been happening in the far west: The beach. A week. So hot in the valley most all the beach views are misty and cool… and the sunsets were, well, muted, let’s just say… There was outside […]
On The Way 