Last week, Mountain Man and I drove north to spend Thanksgiving in Portland. We made a nice little roadtrip of it, splitting the drive eac...

Quick note here to say: the hat, it is finished!  I've been wearing it every day this week. The mornings have been foggy, the evenings ...

I finally made it to Yosemite Valley. What glory to be there in early November, with the last glow of gold in the trees! The air was crisp...

A close-up study of a ball of wool, carried along on a climbing trip ... 

To be honest, I did not enjoy the summer in Berkeley. To wake up to those foggy, chilly, sunless mornings put me in a dismal frame of mind...

On our last Maine day, Mountain Man and I rented kayaks.  We paddled all afternoon from Boothbay Harbor out to the Spectacle Islands and u...

Traveled back to New England for an end-of-the-summer extravaganza.  Quick trip, actually, but I filled myself with the eastern moods and ...

Knitting projects are of utmost importance when packing for a journey.   In fact, I used to keep a category on my blog ("travelogue...