This picture of my hand-dyed scraps is lit by the strong afternoon/early evening sun at 5:30 pm. This is nice to have the light when it'...

  (Photo taken at 6pm) This weekend it was time for some "whole house sun block" efforts. As I've mentioned before thanks to t...

  We're back to Situation Mostly Normal now. The three weeks solid of rain have finally taken a break. It was gloriously sunny out yeste...

When it's not raining, I'm lucky enough to be able to say that this is my home office: Comfy cushions - ✅ Charged up laptop (...

 I was just looking at these pictures I took recently of a really spectacular sunset in Santa Barbara.  And realized that they really are ...

The Pacific ocean on a January afternoon in-between rainstorms as seen from the side of Highway 1 near Pescadero

Not much is getting done around here. We're all just lying about. Soaking up the new spring sun.

I've been experimenting with different sun teas this summer. The yummiest so far was the lemon balm/green tea concoction pictured here...

I got sun burned on our recent beach camping trip. And now that my face is done peeling, I'm left with that first blush of tan for the ...