July 9, 2010, 2:14 pm Shortly after 2 pm on July 9, 1953 (57 years ago), a depressed, unemployed young man tossed a match onto bone dry grass by the side of Alder Springs Road west of Willows, California. Eight hours later, fifteen firefighters were caught by a surprising wind shift and couldn’t outrun the flames in dense chaparral. Today, […]
October 17, 2009, 9:51 pm A bit of a bushwhack to get on top of this rock
As part of a clue retrieval in an annual geocaching puzzle solving activity, Karen and I joined a group of friends at Pinecrest Lake. Our first order of business was to retrieve the clue we needed up a steep hill to a rocky […]
October 16, 2009, 10:01 pm We drove over to Bolinas this morning for something different—some sightseeing, some geocaching, and mostly some hiking. Our route took us west over the Richmond/San Rafael bridge and then on Highway 1 to Muir Beach. This has got to be one of the crookedest roads around—nearly got sick.
Monarch on wild sweet peas
In Stinson […]
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Consider this:“You yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.” Romans 15:14
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