Monday: Fair to Middlin’

I must be mellow today. I’ll credit the heavy fog blowing across my patio right now, and the drops of water left on my plants and spider webs high in the trees. It doesn’t look or feel like late summer, but this happens when the desert to the east of us is hot, pulling […]

The effect of Paradise and marine layers on golf.

I think by now you know that I have a “maybe like - sorta meh” relationship with this palm-laden place I begrudgingly refer to as Paradise. I know that there are many cities I could live that pale in comparison are much more interesting, but my grousing is about more than the monotonous weather […]

What time is it?

It’s not quite midnight here and it’s lovely outside. When I open the back door, the air rushes in and I can smell the jasmine blooming on the fence between our neighbor’s house and ours. It’s warm out and the sky is clear. I can see constellations I don’t normally see.
It’s beautiful.
But I’m tired and need to […]

Wordless Wednesday Contrasts

If you haven’t been reading my blog for any length of time, then you need to know that my idea of Wordless Wednesday is to write less than four or five pages in a single post and add photos. That would be today, even though the orange glow of the setting sun on the […]

Target Smiles

Remember to click the post title if you’re wordy today…
You know you’re in San Diego when your favorite Target has already stocked the big sale area where they display the fake Christmas trees with patio furniture, brightly colored canvas pillows, bug candles, and all things garden. Trowel, anyone? Perhaps the latest in cheap outdoor […]