Pluton with a View
 
 
Hot Air Quarterly at Old City Hall
Monday, February 8, 2010
This Saturday, The Hot Air Quarterly will be giving a reading at Old City Hall; entrance is free. There will be a reception from 6 – 7 PM, where tasty finger foods, wine, and unleaded beverages will
 
Winter Vacation: We Get Tested
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Once we reached the terminal, we realized that ours was not the only flight that had just been canceled. Perhaps as many as ten—or more—flights had been canceled at the exact same time. That meant
 
Winter Vacation: Things Get Interesting
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tuesday morning dawned cold but clear. Richard and I were scheduled to leave at 2:30 PM the following day, and I spent the morning doing a little laundry and getting us all packed and organized for
 
Winter Vacation:  Bruges, Party Central
Saturday, January 30, 2010
I suppose there might come a time when I’m totally blasé about the fact that a person can basically drive underneath the English Channel, but that day hasn’t arrived yet. This is the second time
 
Winter Vacation: New Year’s in Kent
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Rob, who shares our fascination with idiosyncratic British place names, told us to keep a sharp eye out while we made the journey to their friends’ home in Surrey, and that we would be rewarded with
 
A pluton is a large bubble of molten rock that solidifies underground. That’s what our land sits on, affording us a great view of Mt. Lassen (above). This is Celeste White’s blog; visitors will find true stories and articles of general interest, local interest (that is, far northern California), and posts on some of my areas of expertise, which include art, holistic health, biological and medical topics, mainstream/offbeat science, and unexplained phenomena. I’m creating this blog on local software, so I don’t have a comments section set up. But feel free to e-mail me any comments you might have at keswickhouse@earthlink.net and I’ll post them for you on the relevant blog entry. They won’t be posted in real time, but it’ll be easier for you, seriously; you won’t have to type one of those weird letter thingies.