Monthly Archives: July 2015
Domicile, not dominion
Posted on July 30, 2015 35 Comments
Domination is the vocabulary of the weak and powerless. As human beings, we were gifted by the divine with the highest powers of understanding and reasoning on the planet. And we were given a guidebook in the form of the New Testament, a manual for the modern age that began two thousand years ago, the […]
Meet me in San Luis
Posted on July 24, 2015 38 Comments
Coincidentally, this week, the LA Times had an article about the Central California Coast entitled: Nature Meets Luxury. Isn’t that the truth! I am devoting the entire summer to it, not for the luxury, but for the beauty. Let me start this ad hoc post today with an apology: it may seem tossed together as […]
Holding on~
Posted on July 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
Originally posted on Walking with the Alligators:
A Miami Blue Butterfly A Schaus Swallowtail Butterfly Photo credit: FWC/M.Wisnieski Photo credit: FWS ? At first glance this morning, the first story below, gave rise to a tiny hope for two critically endangered, if not already extinct Florida Butterflies, but alas, upon reading…
SLO-bound
Posted on July 17, 2015 16 Comments
It’s time for some more newsy miniutiae about the summer and my schedule. We have been running all over the Central California coast, previewing places to take Anna while she is here this summer and at Christmas. Our destination last week was San Luis Obispo (SLO, as the signs say all over that area). I will […]
Have a Danish
Posted on July 10, 2015 22 Comments
When I first came to California one summer during high school, I summarily dismissed the place as one big beach party. I was wrong! Much later, when my new husband and I drove out from New York after our trip to India, to start our new life together where did we land, of course, but […]
Beth Byrnes 
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