a million pebbles

a notebook of sorts

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” – Goethe

Category: walking

  • Recent walks and current reads.

  • San Francisco, California – 2023

  • Living in the mountains. Right now as I post this, it is pouring. The last big rain melted most of the snow that had been lying around for about a week. Storms have a different take up here in the mountains. I’m still getting use to it. You trade sidewalks and streetlights for 100 foot…

  • Four Views

    I have a fondness for taking pictures of this church. These four pictures taken on different days at different times in different weather between December 2020 and January 2021. I think it’s this whole corner that I like because to the immediate left of this church is this tree which I also take pictures of.…

  • Taken twelve days apart on December 3, 2020 and December 15, 2020 at roughly about the same time of day – late afternoon. The tree is so bare now that you can literally see the two trees behind whose trunks were only visible in the first photo. But look at those wonderful leaves still hanging…

  • Afternoon walk back in November. The days are getting to be faster than they are slower. Time is shifting. A week no longer takes a month. A day no longer a week.

  • Photos from a walk last week. Grey skies. Gloomy weather. Yesterday it rained. Not a lot, more like a heavy drizzle if even that. Not enough to use the windshield wipers while driving, only enough to wipe the drops off in between errands. It was watch a movie weather. Curl up on the couch with…