Category Archives: Around Berkeley

There is a lovely park as part of WildCat Canyon near where all three of our daughters live. The park includes picnic areas which you can reserve for parties, open areas for playing, and trails you can hike. The Eldest … Continue reading →

what started out as a pretty ordinary Saturday fell prey to the domino theory. You know that one – once the first thing goes wrong it sets off a chain with each subsequent disaster compounding life, the universe, and everything. … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon (yes, I do mean Thursday) I observed what must be one of the slowest car chase scenes in the history of California motor patrol history. Hearing multiple sirens, I looked out my craft room window to see a … Continue reading →

The garden has been empty all day. Well, not completely empty – there are my various flamingo ornaments and the lemon tree has what appears to be a bumper crop of lemons. But no deer. Every day so far for … Continue reading →

In the wild, but Albany California isn’t exactly wild. In fact, I took this a few days ago  at one of the two gas stations @ Marin & San Pablo. I am thinking  that someone decided that feeding them might … Continue reading →

What does the well dressed pedestrian wear when walking after dark?  The answer to that probably depends on where, when, and who you are. On all the bases where I have been stationed, the answer was generally “whatever” topped with … Continue reading →

I live in the northern hemisphere where summer is in July and winter is January. And, like the vast majority of humans who also live above the equator, I have a tendency to forget about the reversal of seasons that … Continue reading →

has been hanging out on the hill behind our house for several weeks now. I am not sure that there is much there to eat besides ivy, but he has to be finding something. On a few days he has … Continue reading →

writing every day when it seems that we are enmeshed in Ground Hog’s Day. Yes, I know that I have frequently, often, etc. as well as loudly made this complaint before – but it is still holding. When I first … Continue reading →

On Tuesday mornings, I have been meeting one of my neighbors for coffee and a walk. The coffee is picked up from Peet’s and we have been hiking around various streets and neighborhoods here in the Berkeley Hills. The variety … Continue reading →

In case you need to see something that has not changed in spite of the pandemic – it looks like the falcon pair at UCBerkeley has returned to their tower and are getting ready to settle in for another year. … Continue reading →

and unable to go anywhere. In keeping with long standing tradition – the monkey frieze is decorated for the holiday. Otherwise, there isn’t much house decoration, lights, or action along the route from our house to the Package Sending station … Continue reading →

This is what the world looks like this morning The time is 0844 on US Pacific Daylight Savings Time. Right now, that “daylight” is an obvious misnomer. Traffic is light, there is ash on everything. The photos were captured on … Continue reading →

No, we are not at fire risk, But the smoke? That is another complete story. The last several days have fallen into one of the following: bad worse horrible.   the air quality a couple of days has won us … Continue reading →