Chronology

Arnold Tree-Felling and Fishing

Luke fishing on the Stanislaus River (left) and one of our catch (right)   Luke fishing on the Stanislaus River (left and right)   Getting […]

Adelaide, Minlaton and Sydney

We ventured Down Under for a couple of weeks for the first time in over two years for me and three years for my better […]

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, Ranulph Fiennes A present from my lovely wife (big props on finding this one for me), Mad, Bad and […]

Opium for Wheat

An interesting result of the soaring cereal crop prices: the Taliban are having their heroin cash crop usurped by farmers who want to reap the […]

Wildflower

We all drove down to Lake San Antonio near King City on Friday to compete in the annual Wildflower Triathlon.  Mrs V. raised over $3,300 […]

Photos of the Year

       Unfortunately I can’t take any credit for these masterpieces.  Kudos to National Geographic for these shots.

Petaluma Singletrack

A couple of shots of the local rides on the west side of town…  

Inga Dam

A lot of people probably think the building of a massive hydroelectric dam in a developing African nation is a good thing.  Economic stimulation, sustainable […]

No Sex at Deutsche Bank

Looks like the executives over at Deutsche are going to be forfeiting some of the pleasantries they’ve gotten used to.  I mean, c’mon, don’t you […]

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade Art kindly shipped his second copy of this book to me from Seattle, a very enlightening and interesting read.  Given, […]

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 […]