I attended the March 21 Santa Rosa Symphony concert (last night). The main feature was the world Premiere of Shuying Li's Coping Cadenc...

I attended the Friday, March 20 performance of the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall. On the program were Overture to Euryanth...

At Davies Symphony Hall last night , during intermission, I made my usual climb up the stairs (96 of them; I counted this time) to the balco...

Thanks to the reckless actions of our Great Leader , gasoline prices have jumped, sharply. Two weeks ago, I was paying about $4.19/gallon fo...

I was out at Bodega Bay recently for a dinner at Terrapin Creek Café. Yes, I took my camera. Yes, I took pictures of birds. Nothing unusual...

I realized recently that I've been a licensed driver now for 50 years, as I got my driver's license on my 16th Birthday or thereabo...

I've just started my first attempt at making Limecello. Limoncello is perhaps more familiar, but limes make a good liqueur too. We have...

Some odd and ends. I've been lazy about posting comments on recent concerts I've attended – which I do mostly so that I can look ba...

Today the sun is out for the first time in several days. It's expected to be a short respite before more rain over the next seven or ei...

For the last three days , I've had a pair of White-throated Sparrows kicking around the leaves under our bird feeder looking for seeds d...

In nine days of traveling between Texas and Las Vegas , I had hoped to see many new birds or at least many birds less common than those I ro...

My last post about my recent trip to Dallas and the Southwest claimed Monument Valley as one of the most photogenic places on Earth. Surely ...

Monument Valley has to be among the most photogenic places on Earth. It is, at least, among the most photogenic places I have ever visited....

The next stop on my recent trip to the Southwest was Santa Fe , a rather long drive from Tulsa. At first, our goal was simply to get as far ...