Settlers of the Tate house...

Game night in Idyllwild, I get the rare joy to visit with people I usually only see online... and look at these beautiful people;
        
                                    The Game;

Pretty Sarah;

John                                                                   &                                               Lisa

I couldn't get any good shots of Josh, but I did get the castle he was building...

Yea, I like these people.

Yellow

That which covers all
Conquers souls
fills lungs
teaches eyeballs to fear

That which is inescapable and
Unbelievable.
Only truly understood by those
who have lived
under the tyranny,
of pine.


--My dear loved ones currently living in the pollen, I salute you.

Frosty Garner Valley...

Ice that dusts the trees can make you stop

in the middle of the road

and gasp.

Photos are rather insufficient.

Really? Recession?

Who's brilliant idea was it to put this up in downtown Idyllwild?
And what were they thinking?!

November respit

Disclaimer; I solemly swear to try and stop with the half-assed blogs... must actually put interesting things up on the internet... must be insightful... after this one;

This I took a break (as most of you know)... I've been working solidly since May with few days off in the midst. It had been making me rather amazingly cranky. So last week I ran away.
I went to Catalina with my best friend;


I caught up with some friends from high school.
I had lunch with Sarah and Rosie, where I met many of Sarah's new family members (as in new since 2001) and Lisa (who I may have met before or perhaps only online. It all gets blurry...) I failed to document "When blogs collide" in a room of ten people (four of them under the age of six) seven of us were bloggers... and I don't think any of us took a photo.
although I got this one in the coffee shop later...

I pestered my sister.

Had early Thanksgiving with my family

played some pinball... swung on some ropes...

I took a hike on the Ernie Maxwell trail and all in all had a lovely week away from responsability