Author: Michael

This year’s ski trip took us to Mammoth Mountain. I tried to plan everything out so that we had as few surprises as possible. I settled on Mammoth after doing some research and made all the reservations before Thanksgiving. I called and talked to the resort and hotel services about whether I needed a car…

Normally, I wouldn’t consider going to The Nation Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. I have little love for Westerns in TV and film. While I find history interesting, my tastes tend to go further back and toward Europe. The displays where you could photograph were so dim that often I was in H2 which for…

I took an informal survey and found that no one was dreaming of a crystaline Christmas dispite the alliteration. But here we are on Christmas Eve after four days of freeze and the sun is finally coming out to melt all the ice. I wanted to wait for it to go out shooting.

Last year we had a pair of zoo tickets that went unused. I had been dropping none too subtle hints that our timetable to get to the zoo was running out of available weekends. Last weekend’s offer was accepted but too late in the day, so I had to rescind it. So Saturday we made…

Richard called up on a Monday morning and asked if I could take some time off to go shooting with him.