And just like that, the US becomes a police state, under the clenched fist of Trump's private police force, well funded by the recent Big Ugly Bill.

Los Angeles today. Everywhere else tomorrow.

Pray for the America that was.

Sorry to see that you dropped off of Facebook. Guess we all have to deal with things in our own way.

The real divide in America is not between "right" and "left"-- that's just a distraction to keep everyone fighting. The real divide is between democracy and oligarchy.

In a closed house, especially with multiple people and dogs or other animals, CO2 levels can easily top 2,000ppm. We often leave a window open somewhere in the house to keep levels down.

Yep, that's a bushtit.

This cross, made of rocks now highlighted in pink, marks where I buried my dog Ally over 18 years ago. Ally was buried under a walnut tree here on the ridge that she loved visiting so much.

The tree is now ashes, but the fire dozers spared this marker as they cut fire lines and roads.