We celebrated our anniversary with a bunch of friends in a beautiful Encinitas garden yesterday afternoon. Three birthdays were celebrated a...

Leslie found this dog tonight running loose tonight on the dirt road near the intersection of North Stagecoach and Willow Glen.  Not the sor...

A buyer that I had never met before contacted me the other day about buying this pencil signed etching by the great cowboy artist, Edward Bo...

 

For the first time that I can recall I received a dangerous site message when I tried to open the blog today. A reader called me as well to ...

Anybody have pictures of Leslie and my wedding? Shawn? It was twenty seven years ago tomorrow. Not sure where my album is but Leslie will pr...

I must need to go the mountains. Can't stop looking at old snapshots of Yosemite. Never looked at this one before. I find that I can rev...

There are two stories that caught my attention today. In the first there was another recent Tesla death, a fatality up in Fontana . Apparent...

One of the all time great telecaster players, Redd was Merle Haggard's guitar player for many years. Great tone. Guy is a year younger t...

Pick up the song about 4:17...

One of things I enjoy doing in life is reading gangster and gumshoe stuff. O'Henry, Spillane, Runyan, Stout, Johnny Dollar, insurance de...

Remember when the dollar store was selling those boxes of wildflower seed for a buck? I bought twenty. Nothing. Same with Reardon. My neighb...

  “If you didn't know that TV footage was a video from January the sixth, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.” Rep. ...

Good luck figuring out the good guys from the bad guys in the middle east. The current imbroglio in East Jerusalem assuredly has plenty of b...

  I finally got a shot of the baby red tailed hawks this morning. They are maturing nicely and quickly. Two weeks ago they were largely comp...

I am not a big fan of Grateful Dead cover bands, at least the official ones. Wouldn't sit through a Dead & Co. show if you paid me r...

That sucking sound are your constitutional rights going straight down the toilet. An interesting story on asset confiscation over at Reason...

Today is the day. I want to be finished with this phase of my project tonight. Long as it takes. I want to get away for a day tomorrow in n...

 

White Sands It's hard to live with a brilliant person and my mother was nothing if not brilliant. Friends would take so much pleasure in...

You could be minding your own business, having the best day ever, suddenly you look up in the sky.  What is that thing hurtling down at supe...

  I obtained this  pencil study from my friend Ken in Palm Springs a few weeks ago to put in my auction. He bought it years ago in Atlanta b...

Two thirds of the voters in Oceanside voted against a new housing project, North River Farms. The developer took the referendum to court and...

It is 7:12 8:45. I am tired. I told my wife I would be home for dinner two hours ago. I have to call it a day. I have been supplementing ph...

  I was quite pleased to hear that The Fallbrook Sourcebook used one of my photographs on their front cover this year.  I just walked over ...

A nice, somewhat pollyanish song from one of the most optimistic, not to mention greatest of songwriters, Paul McCartney.

Mountains through the trees - F. Grayson Sayre I finally went live this morning with my preview of my first live auction on live auctioneers...

And back in Florida, Governor DeSantis is suspending all local Covid restrictions as well as vaccine passports.  It seems more than a littl...

They called Karen Dalton (1937-1993) the "Hillbilly Holiday" but she said Bessie Smith was actually a bigger influence. An early ...

I thought that I would be able to button up the first phase of my auction preparation today but I couldn't. I am down to about ten water...