Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery
Persistence
Snow white
We don’t get snow at this elevation, but every year around this time our driveway becomes littered with a white camellia blossoms. Usually it’s a scattering of individual petals — but now and then the tree will drop a fully formed flower.
Rainy day
Memory Monday, Week 98
These days when we head off to spend Christmas with the Big Guy’s family, it means a 3-hour airplane ride to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I do enjoy those trips, but sometimes I miss the days when his folks were living on Bay Farm Island in Alameda, only an hour or so away from our house via the freeway. We’d […]
Home of the Indians
Storm’s coming
North Texas, the day after Christmas 2018 — the wind was whipping a storm up from the southeast, dark clouds came rolling in, and heavy rain, with the frequent flash and boom of thunderstorms, was soon to follow.
Round and round
Big Guns II
More historic artillery from the collection at Fort Point, San Francisco.