Scenes from the Gold Country

June 14, 2012
Not your typical banking lawyer. Hubby's worn these to client meetings and last week, gold mining. Maybe those two activities are the same thing? But this goes...

Samba with me to the sea

June 13, 2012
Anthropologie Northern Californians head to the sun and surfabout this time of year. In my neck of the woods, the nearest beach is Santa Cruz. Getting there...

Why I hate camping #2

June 12, 2012
Remember my post the other day on why I hate camping? When I said my father used to take us camping every year for a weekend at Letchworth State Park? Ironically, I just...

Seductive India draws me like a magnet

June 12, 2012
India's rich culture, spiritual underpinnings and history have always meant exotic. The people. The heat, the noise, the confusion, the food and, maybe even the smells...

Panning for gold in the California Gold Country

June 11, 2012
California's Gold Rush history is well known, and thanks to all the gold mining realityTV shows, there's a new Gold Rush afoot. Well, not really. But kind of. Anyway, we...

Que sera, sera!

June 10, 2012
Or rather: I'm not really a fan of syrah, are you? But I read a legend about it: It was brought from Syracusa by the legions of Roman emperor Probus after 280...

To Paris with love

June 10, 2012
Altered Gypsy My sister-in-love had last minute opportunity to go to Paris for a week and have a completely free place to stay.  She called to ask "What do you...

Panning for Gold in California

June 7, 2012
As you read this, we are in the California gold country doing this:  ---->>>Why, you might ask, would we pan for gold in the heat that is early June in the...

Six reasons to avoid camping

June 7, 2012
Oh, I totally get the nature part of it, I do. Love nature. And we're looking at going to Africa to commune with nature in the next year or two.  But we won't be...

How to build a Moroccan garden

May 17, 2012
We made a false start at landscaping last spring, our first spring after we bought this house in Fall 2010. Maybe we didn't have a clear vision or maybe we picked the...

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