I am so excited to finally get to share a new design for the site!
I can’t believe how long this has been in the works. I feel like I’ve been wanting to talk about it for ages! I think it was sometime last spring that I first got to making plans. It really all started because I wanted to be sure the site was as easy to read on your phone as at your desk—and I wanted it to load fast. But as with any kind renovation, that turned out to be just the beginning. It was a long wishlist of small changes that eventually turned into a complete redesign.
Here are some of my favorite changes you’ll see. I imagine we’ll encounter a few kinks, particularly in this first week. Please go explore and let me know what you think…
You know about Taco Tuesdays? I think we need to instate Fromage Fridays. Are you with me?
We are thinking of driving up to the snow on Saturday—a quick visit to Lake Tahoe. On Sunday, we’re going to pay a visit to a local Hops farm with friends—where there’s a makeshift taproom in the field. I’m also hoping to get caught up on Downton Abbey! I haven’t watched any of the new season yet! What are you looking forward to?
I saw an incredible clip of a paddle boarder and two whales (in Australia) this week, and it made me recall the underwater photography of Anuar Patjane. His photograph—below—of a humpback whale and her newborn calf around Roca Partida Island in Revillagigedo, Mexico, won the National Geographic Travelerphoto contest last year.
When I see divers under the water like this, I think at once how I’d love to be there, too—but recognize that I’d probably be a bit afraid.
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure… . Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself?”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
It’s not the first time that photographs of whales have captured my imagination. Do you remember these life-size photographs from a few years back?
Aron has swam with whale sharks in Australia and the experience sounded incredible. One day I’d like to find myself in Mexico with them, off the coast of the Yucatan: “the waters off Isla Holbox—a 27-mile long curl of sand and mangrove thickets, where the Gulf of Mexico converges with the Caribbean Sea—have been identified as hosting the world’s highest concentration of whale sharks. According to Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas, as many as 600 come to feed here between May and October—and particularly during the month of July.”
Would you? Have you?
P.S. In case you’re thinking about a trip to Mexico…
