Category Archive: Nature

Feb 22

A strange encounter with a hawk

It was late afternoon on Sunday Feb. 13, 2011. I was driving to Palo Alto to meet a friend to go to a concert in Stanford University. I was on the beautiful hilly segment of Highway 84 off of 680 heading west. Suddenly I heard a very loud BANG on my side window right near …

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Dec 04

The little wine country

One of my favorite pastimes from the San Francisco Bay Area was visiting the Napa and Sonoma Wine Country. The landscape especially in Fall and Spring, beautiful vineyards and estates, a wide variety of good wine especially exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon, romantic bed & breakfasts (B&Bs), good spas and hot springs in Calistoga, and gourmet food in famous restaurants such …

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Jul 01

The Great Outdoors

Lake Isabella, via Wikipedia After years I had an opportunity to go on a little weekend camping, rafting and kayaking trip recently, thanks to a good friend. We camped by Lake Isabella past San Bernardino, in S. California. I swam quite a bit in the lake with temptations to swim across the lake though I avoided it …

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