Sunset out our window, Berkeley, CA.

You may find it hard to believe, but honestly, I didn’t tinker with the color on this. No “boost,” no “saturate,” no nothing. Mother Nature’s pulled-taffy splendor, which of course is splendor enough.

Thank you for coming along for this month’s ride. I didn’t always get a picture up each day; a coupla times holiday merry-making backed them up a day and they came tumbling in all in a clump. A violent reaction to my brother-in-law’s lobster risotto threw my posting off another time. But it has been a huge treat for me.

During the first week of the new year I’ll do two compilation posts rounding up LD 2010: one featuring (my idea of) the best prose post per month; another featuring (my idea of) the best photo posts, hopefully way more than a dozen, since I recently figured out how to set pictures to music for a slide show and I want to do that. (For my next trick, I’m going to learn how to shuffle cards!) [Later note: bumped out of the first week and into the second by an important & extended plea for Kickstarter funding for the film Pariah!]

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Wet boy, Sausalito, CA.

Wet Gate, Sausalito, CA.


Hey! You want this in its large format JPG form, for a screen saver or backdrop? Write me, I give it to you FREE! A special new year’s giftie from me to you.

Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA.

Her first Amahl, Berkeley, CA.


Auntie and Mama flank her as they sing Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, the family’s holiday staple, with Grampy on the keyboards. Though she’s adored it for years, this time, the girlie is reading the words herself, and finding them in the score, staff after staff.  A Christmas miracle, indeed.

(Wee sliver, here, of Amahl’s sweet song to his mother — it was commissioned by NBC and premiered in the television broadcast from which that wee sliver is sliced.)

Season’s greetings, Berkeley, CA.