Snowy Truckee

Here are a few photos from yesterday after the snowfall we've had in Reno over the last week.


Truckee River at Oxbow Bend


Truckee River at Oxbow Bend


Truckee River at Oxbow Bend


First light


Icy tree


All lined up


Venturing out


Skinny branches


Linked

I was also part of a fun photoshoot the day before by the river downtown; Riley's got some awesome photos from that morning.

Winter Horse Fun

Spent the afternoon on Saturday out at Washoe Lake with Ethel, Riley, Alison, Diane, and Caramello.

With the 30º air temperature and the 30mph wind, Ethel gets bravery points for suffering through it all with bare skin.



My fingers were in misery, even stuffed into nice gloves, but I sure as hell wasn't in a position to complain!

Needles

Tabitha came over last night to aid my monstrous sinus blockage with some acupuncture. Thanks to her skill and expertise I'm breathing a lot better, although I'm not out of the woods yet.

Murphy on the camera work.


The first step is to relax


Tap tap tap


Even the hand gets it


That's a lot of needles

It was a totally new experience for me...thanks Tabitha!

Leonid Meteor Shower...

...without any Leonids. Well, there are actually 2 meteors buried in this 20' exposure, but good luck finding 'em.



Photographed at Pyramid Lake, early hours of 11/17.

Washoe Boulders

From a few weeks ago at Washoe Boulders with Ed and Riley.


Ed prepares himself


Whoops


Riley plays spiderman


Balanced

The Pendulum Swings

I was kindly berated by a friend yesterday for "maintaining" such a lonely blog.

Yeah, I know.

So for the three of you reading this, you may view it with either joy or dismay that my time is being allocated in far different ways than it was not too long ago. Priorities have been completely reorganized or even dropped completely, hence the stasis at this URL.

On one hand, "ya gotta get it while the gettin's good," and I'm up to my eyeballs in work for the first time in a long time. Between a consulting project and a longer-term non-consulting ("real") job, I've been working like a dog and getting back on track with the ol' dolla dolla billz.

On the other hand, I've been absolutely shattered when it comes to finding time for the stuff I enjoy doing extracurricularly or even getting out from in front of a computer screen. The short daylight hours aren't helping much, either.

So from famine to feast or from feast to famine, however it's viewed (I'm not entirely sure myself), the times they are a changin'.

A couple of weeks ago, I got to the pool for the second time in two months (mm hmm), and while I was suffering through the longest 1200 yards of my life, I found myself having an epiphany of sorts. Thinking about the amazing experiences I'd been a part of over the last couple of years, and how those experiences started becoming sparse as I found myself worrying about where my next tank of gas was going to come from, a thought entered my nugget: "You sure had a good run at it, didn't you?" About twelve seconds later, that came to a screeching halt.

Epiphanus interruptus. Antipiphany. What have you.

That "good run" can't be left as such. I know the next month or so is gonna be too busy, but I've gotta push that pendulum back to a healthy place. I don't exactly know the mechanics of how the next few years will conspire to help me include everything that I want to include, but I'll trust the process and my ability to set things right.

At least I've got my third eye looking out for me.



And, thankfully, I do have a little backlog of more interesting things than my scattered thoughts that I'll be posting when I find a spare minute here and there.

Yosemite and Skorg

We spent a few days last week down in Yosemite for Grant and Shawna's wedding...quite an intimate affair, very non-traditional ceremony, great friends, etc. Ethel and I went down there 2 days early to cruise around a bit and do some camping and hiking as it was her only week off between fire season and starting back at Patagonia.

We camped out for a few hours at Crane Flat before a 2:30am wakeup call and a 3:45am departure on the Half Dome trail. For all my 29 years on this planet, I'd never hiked it, and Ethel sure hadn't either. Our goal was to summit by sunrise, but we started a bit later than we wanted and it actually worked out OK: we were at the bottom of the infamous cables as the sun rose, and that made the cable climb and our summit visit just a bit warmer.


Awesome rock


Failed but funny self-portrait


YAWN...nuthin' to see up here...


...um, what's over this way?

Back down from the summit before the hordes arrived at the cables, we were able to take our time on the rest of the hike...still a 17-mile round trip...not bad for a morning of hiking...


Sub-Dome and Half Dome from the east...


...and from the back, doing its best igloo impression


Vernal Fall close-up

After having a great time at the rehearsal dinner right by our tent cabin in Curry Village, we crashed hard and got up on wedding day to do a little car- and short-hike-sightseeing: Washburn Point, Glacier Point, and Taft Point.


Obligatory profile shot

Kinda geeked out at Taft Point for a while...all to ourselves...Ethel's perfectly accidental blue ensemble...and a just-past-full moon:








My favorite






Back into the Valley in time to shower and get dressed in our "finest autumn attire," we spent the afternoon in a meadow just outside the Ahwahnee enjoying a ceremony that renewed my faith in what weddings should be like, followed by a bus (drinking) tour of the Valley before the reception.


Bridgette is a bad influence!


There's a story behind this but I still think it's an epic photo on its own...El Cap Meadow


Fashionista

The reception was in the Ahwahnee, quite well done, and good fun.


Mama and Papa Korgan


Wedding favors only Grant could dream up


Cake shot; I left the rest of the photos to the pros!

Speaking of which, Matt and Tara Theilen made the wedding photos...check 'em out here!

And back to Reno we went the next day, after checking out of this:


Our freezing-ass tiny tent cabin

Long live Skorg!