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I'm off for a few days in Sequoia- Kings Canyon National Park with my Aussie sister and nephews. Our parents took us to hike in almos...

Latest cliffslide on Torrey Pines State Beach, one of the pink layers... ...with more ready to tumble nearby.

Tim the Lego Panda has decided to chronicle this visit of the Australian nephews to California in Lego as he did the one two years ago . ...

This time global warming sure feels like warming - though coastal California seems the most temperate part of the country. I didn't e...

One of the pleasures of parenthood, I gather, is recouping your own childhood, which is to say reconnecting with your five-year-old, your...

Went with my sister and nephews to the Model Train Museum at Balboa Park again . A pleasure to observe the work of many decades in many g...

It's been years, but I'm about to start keeping company with Leibniz again. Not one but two gigs in the Fall will bring me back t...

One of my favorite cacti in Del Mar has been steadily climbing one of the Torrey Pines in our neighborhood. I gather it can get out of ha...

I mentioned that Kunming had disarmed the scruples I'd brought with me, but that isn't quite right. I brought much more than scrup...