I'm famous!

Photo by Julie Sheer.

The Domesticated Partner has authored an exceptionally well-written post in a local newspaper on where to see wildflowers in the Santa Ynez Valley and requested that I help stir up some hits. Plus, she captured a very un-hockey like photo of me taking pictures of poppies on Figueroa Mountain.

And, you know, there's nothing like having my photo in the newspaper that called me on a Sunday afternoon in 2009 and requested that I stay on vacation until the End of Days. Poopheads!

Oh well. Life gets tricky sometimes.

--S.H.

Outside the rink: Central Coast getaway

No game this weekend, so I spent the weekend in Santa Barbara County. A few non-hockey pics:

Sunset at Arroyo Burro State Beach in Santa Barbara on Saturday night.

Moonrise at Arroyo Burro, shortly after the above sunset.

Poppies and lupines growing near the top of Figueroa Mountain in the Los Padres National Forest.

A seagull at Butterfly beach in Montecito. Not a great image, but didn't entirely screw it up.

You can check out some of my other amateurish photography and spend gobs of money on my pics at my SmugMug page.
 

--S.H.