Sunny Side Up

Always something happening on the beach...

Last year's wild cucumber, an unusually intricate worm shell cluster

We threw a surprise party today - my mother's just turned ninety! These are some of the folks from near and far who sent pictures to fêt...

Everything's super-sized in response to the spring rains  Unruly throngs of lanceleafed dudleyas suggest we'll outdo 2010 .

Along Torrey Pines Beach today, thousands of By-the-wind-sailors ( velella ), most just the transparent sail and platform with the polyps  ...

Torrey Pines awash in color, everything super-sized by recent rains.

Flew to California today, my heart pulled as it has been since I was a teenager by the stark splendors of the western landscape unspooling i...

Susan Stubson, a Wyoming Republican heartbroken at the takeover of her state by "Christian nationalists" who have "hijacked...

Floral exuberance at Fort Tryon Park.

Big day for the Episcopal Diocese of New York - a new Bishop Coadjutor was ordained in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The great bra...

Have I mentioned that we have a theatre in the building? The Morninside Players perform in the community room in our basement (recent renova...

A writer friend posted this today. The poem was written after the 2016 election but names my sense of this moment as Republican-led states c...