by Sally | Jun 13, 2025 | On My Mind, Sally Buffington |
The detours life hands you. My photographic file for the month of May moves happily from scenes of church, to the beach, to blooming flowers in my neighborhood—and then to images like the one above. Then: a hospital room, albeit with a view; I spent two stays in...
by Sally | Apr 23, 2025 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, San Diego, Seeing and Photography |
I’m driving one of my favorite roads, the drive to Borrego Springs, and now I’m starting the stretch running seven miles from the mountain town of Julian through the hamlet of Banner, “the Banner Road.” Whoo boy! Lots of curves-–what great driving! This is not a road...
by Sally | Mar 14, 2025 | Places, Sally Buffington |
You’re reading the first in a series of posts about travel and places, this one occasioned by Andy’s and my upcoming annual trip to the Anza Borrego Desert in southern California, northeast of San Diego. Borrego’s two-and-a-half hours away; more than that, it is a...
by Sally | Feb 19, 2025 | At The Table, Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
When I came to California from Massachusetts in 1968, newly married—to Berkeley, no less—everything was new, everything was dazzling, and little seemed familiar. It was as though I’d landed in a sort of Disneyland replete with regions: UC Berkeley, Frat Land,...
by Sally | Jan 21, 2025 | Sally Buffington, Seeing and Photography |
Happy New Year! Happy New Year? What a start I’ve had.After a grand and busy Christmas with family here, both local and visiting, a sleepy New Year’s Eve (neither of us made it to midnight, nor anywhere close), –and then The Bug. On January 4th, I joined a long...