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Posted on August 30, 2024 | Leave a comment

I lived in Stinson Beach, CA for one magical year in my twenties. Oddly enough, the commute may have been my favorite part about it.

The albino crocodile at The Academy of Science in San Francisco, one of my favorite museums there, always reminds me of a funny story from my dad’s childhood. My grandfather, a large and impressive, well educated and traveled, otherwise stoic man, was afraid of spiders. Knowing this my aunt Debbie, found a toy spider at a museum gift shop, waited for her dad to be engrossed with what he was looking at, a crocodile, to drop it suddenly onto his shoulder. Apparently, he made quite the scream.

A magical lunch at the Post Ranch Inn. We even saw some whales spouting!

Taken at the Half Moon Bay pumpkin patch. Ran into that year’s winner of the largest pumpkin celebrating at the Ritz Carlton later that day with some Stanford friends. Gave them quite a thrill driving the E55 AMG that night.

Excellent spa, sauna, and company. We ran into Richard Diamond, author of Gun, Germs, and Steel, who was their for falconry! However we did not “request proposal” as advertised on their website.

Nicola’s engagement party at her dad’s winery in Sonoma, Ram’s Gate.

Nicola’s private wedding ceremony in Kentfield.

Enjoying a Blue Apron meal and a Crabbie’s Ginger Beer with Gentry when we were living in San Francisco at the same time.

One of our favorite father-daughter lunch spots in the city, The Rotunda at Neiman Marcus. There’s no better way to start a meal than with a thimble of chicken consommé and a brioche popover with strawberry butter. They serve some of the only lobster bisque worth eating besides my father’s and that served at the Homestead Inn in Greenwich, CT. Our other favorite lunch spots included: Yank Sing, Café de la Presse, and a restaurant at the Westfield Mall on Market Street that sadly closed but used to do the *best* wild boar scissor-cut noodles called My China.

My Porky Yorky

I took this photo of my dog Chip one foggy morning in Stinson Beach, CA many years ago. He has since passed, though he is remembered fondly.

My favorite memory of Chip is from the time we had been driving seven long hours from the Bay Area back to Newport, and just as we hit LA and Chip got up from my lap, where he had been laying the whole drive, walked over to my mom’s lap, peed, and then went and lied down on his bed until we made it home. My mom and I still laugh about how much Chip loved me, even though she was the one who fed and walked him.

Freeze Frame Seagull

I don’t know why I liked this shot so much. I took it on my Canon Rebel T2i, which was a really high end camera at the time. One of my favorite features was that it was so user friendly (i.e. I didn’t have to adjust shudder speed, exposure, aperture, etc.). This was one of the few times when my subject was out of focus, and yet it captured this seagull mid-flight in such an interesting position that I quite liked the photo anyway. Mostly I love this color scheme though. Foggy blues and pale greys. (I’m partial to spelling “gray” with the English way.)

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