.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Our new 4th Independence Day hats. Mine makes me look fat. We spent the weekend camping w/ friends in our backyard, drinking cold beverages, and listening to Stone Temple Pilots. It has been in the upper 90's and breezy so tolerab...

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } It was hot, humid and Hadley had been up for awhile. We were at the sea lion show watching otters and people coexist with the flippered characters. Hadley was tired, hot and intense. I just love this photo.Subscribe to my blog-cho...

You heard it here. Starbucks, who has 16,000 stores world-wide, said today that it will be closing 600 stores to compensate for the economy and the degradation of its core product experience, coffee.Subscribe to my blog-choose a RSS reader...

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Hadley is 213 days old today. We are celebrating by letting her do whatever she wants. Oh wait... Happy Day, Tushy!.Subscribe to my blog-choose a RSS reader...

Did you know that trees and green grass make you and your kids smarter?Did you know that trees increase the value of your property by as much as $20,000? Yes. They do.I used to have this conversation with a good friend of mine all the time. What makes a neighborhood lined with trees feel cozier and more relaxing, rather than tract home developments with no trees? Why are we drawn to areas with tree...