October 31, 2016
Drama on the horizon:
A glimpse of sunset:
And just off Point Dume, a bit more rain.
October 30, 2016
Clouds and rain and a flight of pelicans as the tide rolled in this morning.
October 29, 2016
All in the family...
October 27, 2016
So nice to see the evening sky hint at rain on the way:
October 26, 2016
My favorite part is the look on Maisie's face.
October 25, 2016
South-facing beaches here, so while it's confusing each time you try to tell someone which direction they're headed on PCH, the bonus is the sunrise:
October 21, 2016
I'll think I understand the impulse behind falconry and then a wild hawk appears and it turns out that no, I don't really get it at all.
October 20, 2016
Eighty-eight degrees at sunset last night, not much better right now at dawn. Santa Ana season, and we're bedeviled by these devil winds.
October 19, 2016
We were first to Solstice Canyon this morning but we weren't alone. If you've ever been, maybe glanced behind you a time or two as the eeriness sank in then you know what it's like to be there, ushered along as the wind rises, whines and winds around you, as a thousand leaves shift and the sun stalls and every canyon ghost story you've ever heard about how this is one of the 'thin places' of the earth feels inevitably right and true.
October 18, 2016
Incremental signs of progress at Casa de LOUD! as we move in some rugs and furniture and even unpack a book.
October 17, 2016
Well that was an unexpected surprise, a tiny bit of rain with a side of power outage and -- sweet bonus -- the ocean a deep and denim blue.
October 15, 2016
Someone's pretty happy right about now...
(Plaschke's column is good but the video is on autoplay. So annoying.)
October 14, 2016
Remember this, the spectacular bloom of giant coreopsis that covers Point Dume each year in February?
These days it's this, dormant as it waits for winter rain:
October 13, 2016
As the internets go full Mad Hatter over Bob Dylan today, let's spend a moment with the Nobel laureate's caretaker's cat, who was a regular visitor to my friend Hope's house.
And if this election is getting to you, there's the nuttiness of the story Bob Poole did a few years back about Dylan's rogue port-potty.
Throwback Thursday: The cat belonging to the caretaker of Bob Dylan's Point Dume property. Shot on May 8, 2008.
October 12, 2016
Pre-sunset clouds as cooler weather moved through.
October 11, 2016
It's almost embarrassing how much your dog knows about you from just a single inhale. Their sense of smell is at least ten THOUSAND times more acute than ours, which is why they can sniff out bombs and drugs and even the beginnings of melanoma growing on your skin. (Of course that makes their need to coat themselves with dead seagull at the beach all the more baffling.)
Still, it's a fascinating topic that'll be in the news for a bit thanks to Alexandra Horowitz's latest book, "Being a Dog", which is all about the miracles and mysteries of the canine nose. She did a great interview on Fresh Air that'll destroy forever any illusions you may have that you've managed to sneak a cookie in the kitchen with your dog none the wiser.
October 5, 2016
Calm and quiet and blessedly cool at the beach this morning, just us and some gulls and a single kayaker as the sun rose.
October 4, 2016
In Bluffs Park this morning when a pair of hawks, small ones, flew by. They moved in unison, low over the underbrush, banking and veering and changing leads. It happened so fast that honestly it was pure dumb luck that I got the camera out and pointed and focused just as the second hawk vanished from view.
October 3, 2016
Entering the third month of living here at Casa de LOUD! and still can't quite bear to unpack.
October 2, 2016
Best day ever.
October 1, 2016
There were three of these kitties in different places around town but one recently got painted over. I'll try to catch the remaining one before it's gone.
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