It depends on how you measure, but we are close to the middle of our snow season. By averages, this is quite a dry winter. But it's no...

Humpback whales can be more than 50 feet long and weigh over 80,000 pounds. Like all cetaceans, Humpbacks are highly intelligent and have a ...

Hey, hotel people. Worried about AIRBNB taking over? If I'm looking for a charming vacation hideaway, then an AIRBNB or VRBO cottage i...

Like everybody, I've seen my share of frost crystals. But these might be the most amazing. We were walking along the Upper Truckee ...

Walking along Pope Beach, December 29th. Crystal clear water. Warm sun. Blue skies. The town is filled with ski tourists skiing on what I...

Hey readers, I hope you all have a great holiday filled with - natch - books, whether they be treebooks or ebooks. If you or any of your f...

My blog readers get an early "heads-up" on certain goodies. On Christmas, eight days from when this posts, my most recent bo...

I know, it's winter. But I've thought many times about one of our explorations last fall, a place that's open in the winter, too...

We don't get a lot of fog in Tahoe. But one morning a few days back, we woke up to a thick gray soup. As it happened, I was heading up ...

Whole Foods has gotten a lot of press since the Bezos/Amazon steamroller bought it for 14 or so Billion  dollars. But there's another ...

Some ice like stucco on the walkway Friday morning. Those boards are 2 X 6s. Which means those paw prints are 9 or 10 inches long n...

I've often noticed that people go to see the next Hollywood blockbuster and get enthralled and excited. I also often notice that when ...