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The team ready to snowshoe Truckee-Donner State Park on New Year’s Eve 2012! Note my new mittens – the rainbow hued “After the Rain” mittens knitted by my mother Mary O’Shea and given to me for Christmas. Did you know she’s a published designer? You can find the pattern on Knitty and read more about her patterns, projects, and plants at Tullymongan Farm. 

It was a crisp 20s day with squeaky snow and gorgeous views as we scraped across the trails in our rented snowshoes before heading back to the cabin for charades, champagne, and guacamole to celebrate the coming of 2013 (heralded with a group wolf howl at the moon and stars at 12:00 AM). 

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Thailand: Land of Plastic Bags. For everything. Preview sketch from my journal. 

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Courtesy of some gravel on a steep downhill hairpin in the Redwood regional park this weekend. Still healing, fingers crossed for no open wounds so I can dip in the Gulf of Thailand next week! 

#iheartmyhelmet

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Super sweet secret destinations for October! Fulfilling one of my life goals, and expecting to be inspired with new insights and ideas on transit (especially), food, planning, and environmental issues worldwide. 

(squeal!) 

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Ever gorgeous desert light. Blooming cacti. Decades of slow growing yucca fibers, saving their energy for large, rustling blooms. Hot, silent, flickering lizards. Long shadows, quick sunsets. 

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Camping in Kirby Cove. Foghorns, starfish, dead birds, wildflowers, tugboats, and more! Check out the full post at OhHaiCa to see more photos. Learn about Cowparsnips, Brassica Rapa, and other wonderments of Marin County. 

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Spent the night up here last night (though this photo is from July, the view was the same: sunny, high 70s, clear starry night, woke up to see a puffy blanket of fog blanketing the city and the ocean!)

Saw hawks, red hawks, many small brown and russet-coloured lizards, two animals that visited our camp late in the evening (pointy ears, loud footsteps – fox, or coyote?), gnats, a small brown snake in the middle of the road that I shooed away just in time, a large brown lizard with a broken-off tail, also in the middle of the road. Laurel or bay, lots of pine and fir trees, the summer triangle still visible up above (reminding me how little I ever see the stars in foggy San Francisco). 

Mount Tamalpais