Blue Heron Blast

I have been on a Beatles kick of late. Mostly the early stuff, With the Beatles and that ilk. I am reading the Beatles Anthology again....

I was at Delos Eyer's fiftieth birthday party with Leslie the other evening and espied this trippy plant popping up in Peggy and Brad...

Poll numbers are in. Americans are freaking imbeciles. Gallup poll of period from May 3 through 6, 2012. 46% of americans believe t...

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I have been getting a lot of material lately and frankly the shop is getting so crowded that I am feeling a little psychically strangled. ...

Our great friend l'accent aigu , aka ´, invited us over for a homegrown dinner last night. ´ has converted her lovely estate into a ...

I got into a neat estate this week and purchased some great old southern california road racing posters from the 1950's. Fellow was...

BigD has been getting some serious and well deserved ink of late. Dave has developed a software that matches kidney donors and recipients....

Very interesting article by the Los Angeles Times Mark Swed on Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and his classical compositions. A violist ...

Hollyhock #2 © Robert Sommers Bought a bunch of hollyhocks the other day. A scarlet, my favorite, which is a dark double maroon, coupl...

Couple of interesting things from Public Citizen, Obama wants to let multinational corporations run the show: Contrary to his campaign...

I got this letter today from JS: Robert, Read this. It may help to understand what the admin should have done from day one. i.e. in...

Still getting the bugs worked out with the new camera. It definitely shoots faster than the last one and in time I will nail this sh...

My buddy and landsman Mike Port turned 94 today. ( So did my sister. Hi Barbara !) I met him down at Denny's, his morning hangout. H...

I heard today that Neil Young is going to be touring this fall with Crazy Horse. Half of the dates he will be joined by Patti Smith, half ...

It close to even money that we will have a new president next term. I think that the replacement would be a disaster in several ways for...

I saw the novelist Anne Patchett speak last month. She had a tip for the aspiring writers in the audience. She says that she never does any ...

A San Diego native, I have spent much of my life in northern San Diego county. I was poring over some old maps this morning, thinking ab...

I have just started to take a few shots with the new camera. I have a lot to learn about its many features. I still have Doug's 80-4...