Yesterday outside our hotel: constant rain all morning. Birding looked like no fun.   After a while, we headed for the San Diego Museum of A...

On the horizon, viewing from San Diegueto Park: snow on the mountains. Not normal! People have been asking me about the weather: it’s rainin...

  Little Blue Heron on the shoreline near out hotel. Snowy Egret. Western Bluebird on our birding tour to San Dieguetio County Park. The tou...

  Today’s tour was called “Birding the Border.” In this photo you can see the famous border fence, above the green hills where we birded wit...

This morning: our plane was deiced and we took off before the epic ice storm hit Michigan. We will be participating in the San Diego Birding...

Snow drops are very early this year. But this weather isn’t expected to last! Mona Lisa for a change Retro art parody: typewriter art! From ...

Mothers in America are almost exclusively responsible for planning and buying food; preparing meals, snacks, and bag lunches; supervising th...

Thanksgiving in February? Last November our plans to have a big family Thanksgiving dinner were disrupted by two cases of covid. (Luckily, L...

“Vienna Blood” Season 3 Dr. Max Liebermann, a Freudian analyst and amateur detective in a wonderful series. The era is Vienna in the first d...

A native Baja California rattle snake, expertly handled! Whales, coyotes, dolphins, pelicans, gulls, shore birds, raptors, even one or two s...

-- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan While I was enjoying a beautiful voyage around Baja California, and subsequently focus...

While we were watching blue whales and humpback whales from the bow of the...