It is different going down to the wharf at night, the sounds of the sea lions underneath are muffled in the quiet, the pungent fishy smells ...

Have you noticed all the blog posts from me recently? There's a reason: The theme for this month's nablopomo challenge is "Cha...

I've been participating in this Wardrobe Refashion challenge kind of haphazardly for more than a year now. But I thought I'd give i...

I'm joining in on a group reading/blogging of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor And conveniently, it starts th...

Three separate pictures taken at the Santa Cruz Wharf at sunset a week ago. This is not an exercise in digital cropping, but illustrating h...

1. Sculptures Left Unfinished , 2. Kate Winslet in The Reader , 3. København - Gammel Strand , 4. Happiness* , 5. 189/365--------roll with i...

We recently went to the Del Mar theatre in Santa Cruz, one of those re-done old-style movie theatres, with lots of great art deco touches. ...

A walk along the road in Santa Cruz on a just-about-to-be-rainy-day. A surfer walks in to the shore. The safety railing isn't looking ...

Continuing my quest for a great full moon shot. I really like the rainbow effect from the cloud cover. It sure was bright last month. Th...

I love it when the year turns. Everything gets to start again. New choices, new chances to make different and hopefully better decisions. ...

The big present this holiday was a new cappucino/espresso machine. Woohoo! It has been more than a year without one, and we had really mis...

I've been taking lots of pictures of the winter sky lately. Here are a few as I waited in the car in our driveway. These were taken t...

I'm choosing this as my guiding quote for the coming year: "So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me aga...

Hip Hip Hooray, Corpse Mistress Arlee received her round two Exquisite Corpse back! In round one, it went missing in the postal system, so ...