Stumbled across a great photo stream on Flickr kept by a guy who posts under the handle fitznatty. Here’s a slideshow of his stuff: More great shots at his web site. A fave: his encounter with a mountain lion in…
Yearly Archives: 2008
About those benches
by tom • November 6, 2008 • 0 Comments
You don’t have to be Wallace Stegner to get a bench named after you in the Midpeninsula Open Space Preserve, and a fat wallet alone won’t do it, either. In case you wondering how one gets one of those benches,…
East Bay parks bond passes
by tom • November 5, 2008 • 2 Comments
Contra Costa Times has the details: Measure WW put on the ballot by the East Bay Regional Park District got 71 percent of the vote, more than enough to pass the two-thirds majority it needed. Measure WW will finance $500…
A great time to be an American
by tom • November 5, 2008 • 0 Comments
A guiding principle among folks of Republican ilk is that the faults of these United States of America are vastly overblown and that the nation’s lefty-liberal critics are largely out to lunch. It took a smart, capable half-white liberal black…
So who are you voting for today?
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 17 Comments
Or, better yet, what are you voting against? I’m a cautious, fiscally conservative, middle-class white guy who thinks the United States of America is the greatest large country on this planet of ours, but I almost never vote for Republicans.…
Nice local blog: Bay Area Outdoors and Beyond
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 4 Comments
Dave Miller has been sending GPS/Google maps of his Northern California hikes to Backpacker magazine for some time, but his blog has been around only since July ’08. The most recent post is a gem: he goes to Cloud’s Rest…
Links for Bay Area hiking voters
by tom • November 4, 2008 • 10 Comments
Bay Nature has a quick list of the major outdoors-related votes on today’s ballot. The Greenbelt Alliance thoughtfully instructs us on how to vote. The biggest vote is for Measure WW, which will allow the East Bay Regional Park District…
Evil advertisers alert
by tom • November 3, 2008 • 5 Comments
Well, Google’s Adsense has finally pissed me off. The twits who think the world will end when people of the same gender marry have bought up blog space across the California blogosphere and their aggravating, misleading ads are showing up…
First hike: Garin-Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park
by tom • November 2, 2008 • 6 Comments
Garin-Dry Creek Pioneer Regional Park is mostly former ranch land, like most of the East Bay parks, which means a fair share of old Jeep trails better attuned to the internal combustion engine. The park is in lies in the…