Chronology

Willow Creek

  Wild irises and California poppies                California poppies   Highway One and the California coast   Lunch at the Fern Tree

California Cows

There’s a dairy on my drive home right on the Marin Sonoma county line that I’ve been trying to get a photo of all winter, […]

California Green

Too bad my hand’s not a little steadier, otherwise this photo of a hiking trail in the Marin Headlands could have been a keeper…

Bear and Bernanke

While things have by no means calmed down in our capital markets, I have a bit of a break and am going to take Ferris […]

Bourbon and Branch

We celebrated BK turning 28 on Saturday with Bronte, Danielle and Jane down in the city.  Ben got put onto an awesome little bar called […]

50,000,000 Dollar Note

Poor ol’ Zimbabwe, today marked the third time in three months that the Zimbabwean Central Bank has printed a higher denomination note.  The one today: […]

Big Air Time

There were some crazy moves being pulled at Sugarbowl last weekend…

Banff Mountain Film Festival

Luke took us to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour last night, what an awesome event!  We were awed by a series of short […]

Castle Peak

Luke and I have been throwing around the idea of getting hold of some randonee skis for a while now, so with the nice weather […]

Is Airbus in the Euro Business?

All over the news today: the Pentagon chooses Airbus to revamp it’s super-tanker fleet, awarding an up to $100 billion (USD) contract to the French […]

Stop Talking About Commodities!

I sit here every day listening to the talking heads on CNBC, watching the headlines flash by on my screens, and seeing the newspaper finance […]

Number 29

A birthday that had it all: good friends, good food, an amazing cake (thanks Andi) and cupcakes (and Katrina), good music, me killing it at […]

Packer’s Lunch

Packer’s Lunch, Neil Chenoweth Mum gave me Packer’s Lunch as a Christmas present last year, what an eye-opener!  Although I’m sure it exists here as […]

New Providence and Staniel Cay

With all the wet weather we’ve been having, we decided it was time for a bit of sun during winter so we ventured southeast to […]

Marching Powder

Marching Powder, Rusty Young I didn’t just read this, I read it years ago when a friend of mine put me onto it.  But, I wanted […]

Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue,  Anthony Kiedis I don’t think this would be the type of book I’d usually pick up in the book store, but I must […]

Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb Just finished this one, pretty good read, reminded me a lot of my Behavioral Finance class at Cal.  If […]

Taos Winter Wine Festival

The winemaker of the family was asked to represent Kendall-Jackson at the Taos Winter Wine Festival this last weekend in Taos, New Mexico.  Somehow I […]