Train-riding sight seer, Sacramento Delta, CA. Sometime back the boychild and I reconnoitered a trip to the California Train Museum on board the Capitol Corridor, Amtrak’s Bay Area-to-Sacramento line. Next time’s going to be with DadDad, an ol’ timer not too old to remember when the train was the ne

Handwarming on Baba’s belly at the Christmas tree farm, Santa Cruz Mountains, CA. Photo credit: The Mrs. How does one resume posting after an unannounced, three-week absence from one’s own blog? Which itself followed a (barely anticipated) months-long, slow-to-a-trickle output? Which itself followed a notable diminishment in spirit, if not quantity