by Sally | Feb 6, 2026 | At The Table, San Diego |
The Farmer’s Market on a recent Saturday afternoon, and I’m gazing at the bounty of early January in southern California. What to buy? Which lovely opportunities shall I select from the glowing spectrum before me? Orange, yellow, green, even the rosy blush of blood...
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 | Aug 3, 2023 | Nature and Places, San Diego, Seeing and Photography |
Here’s a neighborhood landmark, located on the corner of the street above mine. For a long time, no one’s paid it much heed; the sign’s been “just part of the landscape.” Until just the other day. I drove by, glanced to the right—and saw that the sign stood alone....
by Sally | Oct 21, 2021 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, San Diego |
Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Cape Cod National Seashore. I had made it to the crest of the dune after a climb in two-steps-forward-one-step-back sand, when whoosh! I was almost blown off my feet. I must have shimmied, but after a few steps down toward the...
by Sally | Oct 18, 2019 | Nature and Places, Sally Buffington, San Diego |
S 16 – CA State Route 16 Between Greenfield, CA, driving west from Hwy 101 over Carmel Valley Road to Hwy 1 at Carmel. Spring 2016 Oh, how on earth to capture the day? Photographs of course. Words. It is impossible to summon anything like a twentieth of it all. Dear...
