Of all the places I visited in Scotland, the Outer Hebridean islands of Harris and Lewis may have been my favorite. Adrift in the North Atlantic, these two isles are wild and remote like nothing you’ve experienced. Mountains and boulders…
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Scotland – Details
Grand vistas can introduce you to a place but details tell the story. The more I travel the more I take pictures of small things, textures, colors, the things that make up a place. Here then, a few of my…
Scotland – The First of Many
For the past two weeks I’ve been in Scotland with my mother and daughter, a three-generation journey to reconnect with our roots and each other. Instead of a chronological travelogue I’d like to offer up snippits, collections of photos and…
Climate Change is Here!
Everyone can break out the shorts and t-shirts: climate change has arrived. “Ha ha,” snort the East Coasters who are still entombed in gray snow. But it’s true, the “norm” of weather doesn’t exist any more. If change is the…
Posted in Gardening, Travel Tagged with: beach, climate change, Eocene, san francisco, travel, warmth, weather
Two Fine Buildings
We were talking about Sonoma last week but let’s move south a few miles to that hilly peninsula between the white-capped Pacific and the chilly shark-infested waters of San Francisco Bay. Yes, the city with famous bridges and famous cable…
Posted in Travel Tagged with: academy of sciences, architecture, art, assless chaps, city, deyoung, san francisco, travel
Oh Gee, Where’ve I been?
G is for go go go. Sometimes you have to step away from your surroundings to know where you are. How can we stretch out this metaphor? Climb a tree to see the forest? Take off your glasses to see?…
Holy Smokes I Wrote a Book!
Ha ha, if you didn’t already feel the cloying desperation of self-promotion from the intro page or the writing page then perhaps another splash of the book cover will catch you: I put this in because I just heard, through the…
Posted in Writing Tagged with: adventure, book, border to border, land rover, off-road, travel, writing
Being Away From Your Child
Now I know how the border collie feels, standing in the field with the grass tickling its belly, knowing a sheep has escaped over the hill and beyond the copse of trees. I know how the eagle feels the first…
Flying With Toddlers, Part Two
The long return from our vacation required us to cross the continent, and like the return leg of a boomerang’s flight, we were losing energy and altitude fast. Since Child Harbat is staying an extra two weeks with grandparents on…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplane, airport, flying with toddlers, number two, parenting, richard scarry, travel
Beside the River
Stop Three: a place a spent my childhood summers sailing on a winding river verged with thick greenery like stands of broccoli florets. A place where colonials malcontents dumped British tea into the river just as Bostonians had. A place…
