Entries from March 2009

March 22, 2009

Not Just Snail Mail: We’ve Got Manatee, Dolphin, Marlin, and Flamingo Mail Too

People all over the Bay area like to indulge their creativity when it comes to mailboxes, but near the water, receptacles for the daily post reach a whole new level of crazy.
I doubt that the Postmaster General approved all the boxes Allie and I have seen in the neighborhood, but the mail-people don’t seem to [...]

March 15, 2009

This is the view I see out my window in the morning.
As much as I love sunsets, especially the over-the-water-kind with the green-flash bonus, sunrises are just the best.
I’ll never forget the one morning when I was eight, my dad woke me up at 4:00 am. It was cold, [...]

March 1, 2009

Pigments of Imagination: Houses Near the Beach Come in All Colors

Apparently if you live near the water, you run the risk of your spirit becoming a little bit too free. Either that or the beach attracts a lot of people who are absolutely color blind. Houses near the beach tend to not be the mundane “ticky-tacky” of inland suburbia.
This place doesn’t need [...]