The Beginning, 2/1/19

The light in the boathouse began a stealthy morph from a shadowed murk to the color of sooty cotton. Winter … Continue reading The Beginning, 2/1/19

Restoration

The cruising season will be soon upon us in earnest. Our current plan will be to make our way North … Continue reading Restoration

A small project: adding a well placed shelf! Of course there were a few more steps, cutting a dado in … Continue reading After the Magnificence of the Worm Moon… What Could Be Left…

San Diego has a backdrop of snowy mountains in the winter. Mount Palomar and the Cuyamaca Mountains, the Southern extremity … Continue reading Cruising the Salish Sea Under the Gaze of a Worm Moon

Dawn has proved once again that Spring is dutifully willing to take her rightful place on the stage as Winter … Continue reading The Day After the Day After: Just a few more snaps from yesterdays walk with Leo…

As I type this, it is warmer outside my window than it has been. That being stated, there is a … Continue reading The Spring Equinox… So What’s in a Day…

Last night… the single and solitary frozen crystals drifting from the clouds gave way to a cornucopia of fledgling glider … Continue reading Our First Snow Day of the Season… 2/13/21

It is snowing. I’m not talking about a North Dakota or High Sierra type of snow that fills the nostrils … Continue reading The Dinosaurs (Birds) of Port Ludlow; 2/11/21

While we have undergone some great cruising in late fall, early winter and in the “dead” of winter, we do … Continue reading Cruising in the PNV By Foot Power; 1/28/21

In 2006, the journalist and screenwriter Nora Ephron published an essay in The New Yorker about her love affair with the Apthorp, … Continue reading The Meaning of Home; 1/24/21 (Of course that could change in 20 minutes…)

We departed Langley at 0800 bound for Anacortes. It was a drizzly morning. While we were out to pick up … Continue reading Langley to Anacortes Via the Swinomish Canal; A Mid-Winter Cruise Part II; 1/24/21