After I last wrote, we spent many hours wrestling with my desktop PC, which has decided that it is against ...   more »

Rice Canyon is a typical San Diego nature preserve, in that it is too small, too modified by humans, and ...   more »

Penasquitos Canyon Preserve is another local park in San Diego that allows you to momentarily step out of the urban ...   more »

For the last several weekends, I've been going on short, local hikes with some friends. I need the exercise, and ...   more »

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I've regaled you all already about how bad my memory is, and how absent minded and just plain scatterbrained I ...   more »

That's a catalog photo of my new Olympus SP-560UZ digital camera. It's hard to use a camera to take a ...   more »

Water is essential to life. It is also very heavy. San Jacinto Hike, PART 2   more »

What happens when someone who's out of shape and totally unprepared decides to go on a 16 mile hike with a heavy pack? Part ONE   more »

(Literally translated: Skies of May)

It was the weekend of Cinco De Mayo, the Mexican 4th of July. It was ...   more »

Warning: Sports haters may want to skip this one. It's not all about sports, though....   more »

I posted a new photo to Photos.

I'm no professional photographer. I'm not even good enough to call myself an amateur photographer. The only title left for ...   more »

I posted a new photo to Photos.

I posted a new photo to Photos.