Monday, December 20, 2010

UNTITLED HOLIDAY

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ABOUT MID-NOVEMBER, when what we call “cold” in Northern California sets in and we’ve pulled from the cedar chest the woolen shirts and extr...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

ON THE HIGH LONESOME – HOW ROADS GET ON THE LIST

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If you let one get away, you’ll always be one behind. - Sage advice from somebody’s uncle, though likely not about scenic by-ways. WARR...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

BOOKS FOR TOTS (instead of toys)

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BETWEEN ABOUT THE END OF OCTOBER AND CHRISTMAS, we are often asked to contribute to Toys for Tots drives. The California Highway Patrol spo...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

HEY JULIAN, WIKI LEAK THIS!

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MY POSTINGS MAY NOT HAVE ANY INTELLIGENT VALUE, but what if there’s intelligence value? I wonder this because, on the domain server which ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

THE TWO SEASONS

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[LATE NOVEMBER, 2002] Winter has descended on the Great Central Valley. I know because baseball ended about a month ago, at my hand, and t...
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Monday, December 6, 2010

GREAT POTTY STOPS OF THE OPEN ROAD II – SUTTER’S MILL, COLOMA, CALIFORNIA

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Second in a series "My eye was caught with the glimpse of something shining in the bottom of the ditch. I reached my hand down and pic...
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

NEW RIDING BOOTS

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On a ride a few weeks back I found that the bottom of my left foot was wet and getting increasingly wetter as the ride progressed and as the...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

YOU DON’T SAY “NO” TO MOM

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FINALLY, THE MACULAR DEGENERATION had worked its evil on what used to be known as the good eye and mom was now, for all intents and purpose...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

A WALK IN A COASTAL VINEYARD

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SOME AUTUMN DAYS, and some days in spring, possess a kind of harmonic convergence. A convergence wherein sun, color, temperature, and clime...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

WHEN DO “THEY” BECOME “US?” - By Don Russell

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Note: Don Russell is the editor and publisher of The Mountain Messenger, California’s oldest weekly newspaper, headquartered in Downievill...
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