For there is no reason on this Earth for you to miss this needlessly:

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Altro Canto

Even the ones who live in London.

Item the first, and the most important ( Read more... )

Colin was overjoyed by all the emails he got for his birthday--you guys rock.

Due to work schedules, we didn't get any camping in, but we did manage to spend all day Sunday at Mt. Diablo. The boys (Colin, Mike, Trevor) did some climbing, and I did a lot of picture-taking and managed to hike all the approach paths to the rocks (inclines, leaves, ( Read more... )

So, many moons ago, I went to a bouldering competition at Berkeley. I ended up taking second place in the Intermediate category (see), so I won a pair of Nike ACG Cinder Cones! It's an approach shoe--a tennis shoe / hiking shoe with sticky rubber on it so you can go galloping over rocks, boulders, and walk-offs with friction and grace on your way ( Read more... )

This past weekend we drove up to Muir Woods to walk among Redwoods 300 feet tall. It was amazing and lovely. The sun filtering down through such great heights, and so sparsely that you notice and are surprised and pleased by its presence... looking up and seeing these tall, narrow trees swaying in the wind, knowing how tall they are but not ( Read more... )