The creatures we once never were arose like howls from the crypt for coffee, and then, once we regained our footing, such as it was, spun off  across town juking and jiving through the police cordons, municipal make-projects and Caltrans craters to the precinct of The Wildman.  He looked good, most of him, except for […]

The week started right with an early morning rike west and circumscribed nearly the entire municipal golf course; on which I likely trespassed greeting a potential freezer full of the town deer herd. Four Point Buck Only. All the homes in this section of PG Eden are mid-century, some still the 1,000 ft sq box […]

Stepped out for the rike and smelled rain.  Augtember?  Nahhh. Yah – about 100 northeast.  We were cheated again. As I riked 190 minutes last week, I’m due for 200 this week.  Spread over 5 sessions, that’s 40 minutes each.  Seems impossible, and yet today, put in a solid 50 minutes, so I’m ahead 10 […]

Furtive splashes four miles out.  Transient white puffs.  A fin, another.  Could this be the first pod of orcas I’ve ever seen in the Bay? I’m in the truck following a dump truck when suddenly we enter a canyon.  Darkness.  Turn on the lights, they’re aimed too low can only glimpse the tail end of […]