On a walk starting from Buckland Common on 16 September, I found a surprising amount of picturesque, abandoned machinery. The photos are now up on Flickr. Here are a few samples.


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Last weekend I went for another walk in Ballinger Common. This time I took another route. The sweet jars below I found in the window of an abandoned shop in Lee Common. You can see the set on Flickr or the slideshow.


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I've been taking photos of my garden on a roughly weekly basis over the last year and a half. The result is a Weekly Garden photo set with 45 photos in it on Flickr. It's probably best watched as a slide show to appreciate the changing seasons.

Here are two examples of recently uploaded photos. This one is from the end of April this year.

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Great article on recovery by Caille Millner, using Gavin Newsom's recent foray into "rehab" as a starting point.

Suzette Haden-Elgin shares her method for writing both fiction and non-fiction in fifteen-minute snippets

The City of San Francisco and the Northeast San Francisco Conservancy are proposing to protect trees vital for the survival of ( Read more... )

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