our Thanksgiving table

This year I chose to bring some of the garden onto  the table.  Just some liquidamber and heavenly bamboo leaves with some pomagranates, set...

Stone Steps

This is the first of two posts from this part of the Encinitas shoreline - the next one will be from Beacons, a short distance north. Stone ...

Agua Hedionda

From the Smith River in the north to the  Tijuana River  in the south,  California's beaches are broken by dozens of small stream mouths...

Narabeen to New York

Simon Anderson from Ether Dicko from Ether Pat Curren from Ether Dave Parmenter from Ether Single Young A. N. Kidman is with the family doin...

Black's Beach

Black's Beach, named for the family that once ranched above the bluffs where the over-the-top mansions of La Jolla Farms now perch, and ...

5 Thanksgiving Recipes I need to try!

a few last minute recipes... YUM! Haricots Verts Bundles with Garlic - Click HERE Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting - ...

Torrey Pines

I'm going to proceed with my San Diego posts as if I'm systematically marching northward up the coast, but my actual itinerary was a...