Oddball Observations

When one goes to California one expects warm, sunny days.  So why did we go in mid-January when the coldest cold wave in years chilled the s...

I'm always surprised, it seems, by the variety of wildlife in our beautiful lands.  On our recent trip to California I took some photos ...

As you know from yesterday's post (if you read it), SWMBO and I have just returned from a visit with our friends, the Cochruns, on the c...

SWMBO and I returned yesterday from a week-long trip to central California to visit our friends, Tom and Lana Cochrun.  If you read Tom'...

Today is the day once celebrated as the birthdays of two wildly disparate people.  The first one you all know. It's hard to belie...

What is it, I wonder, in a man who has worn a beard for many years to suddenly decide he wants to try life without one? I received a photo...

. . . SWMBO, not to my surprise.  She's spent many decades (I won't say how many) standing over a stove so she correctly identified ...