Mae Travels

Following up my post from yesterday, today's papers continue to supply news and comment. First, The New York Times and several others c...

I support the Israeli position on the current military action in Gaza. Like them, I hope it will soon be resolved with relief for all the vi...

I walked near the La Jolla Cove today; that is, around 2 miles from the beach where I've been going. There are several little cove-like ...

Scripps Pier belongs to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and is used for research. It's at the end of La Jolla Shores beach. I f...

I started this blog when I spent a month in Israel in 2006. Now from beautiful California I am following a terrible war, reading many newspa...

Arny, this post is for you -- See the big number 100? Three boys around 6 years old were writing numbers in a long row in the sand. They wro...

La Jolla Shores is a wide sand beach framed by cliffs at the south end and the Scripps Pier and more cliffs at the north end. Between our co...

Torrey pines are an isolated and nearly extinct species of pine, which grow only in Torrey Pines Park near here, and on Santa Rosa Island in...

Harbor seals seem to have taken over the beach at the La Jolla cove. You can see them in the water. The Pacific Ocean was beautiful this aft...

UPDATE: two more photos from Len's camera: These are petroglyphs from the Hohokum Indians who long ago inhabited the area.

Tulsa, Ok Route 66 road sign in Tulsa: we followed 66 (now 44) from St.Louis to Tulsa and turned off here to head south towards Fort Worth S...

Charlie and Louise Boren are the owners of the Russell Farm Art Center, which includes workshops, studios, meeting rooms, and galleries, as ...

Mona Lisa celebrates... and recovers...

The Penguin House in the St.Louis Zoo is wonderful! I love the other animals too. Yesterday many of them were enjoying the late December sun...