Numbers
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo ChallengeCee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Eagle season
They won’t be laying eggs until early next year, but our local bald eagles are already checking out their chosen areas and starting to build (or rebuild) their nests. A couple of days ago I was very lucky to spot one of the Lake Natoma eagles sitting in the nest tree — probably wondering how long before the noisy humans […]
The Adventure Continues… Bodie
Since this episode of California’s Gold was filmed in 1992, the Bodie State Historic Park has only grown in popularity. There are now about 100 structures still standing, and the high desert location makes it a favorite for winter and nighttime photography. As this episode makes clear, Bodie is famous not just in California but all over the world! Join […]
Rowdy redhead
I see a lot of acorn woodpeckers as I hike around my area. It’s also not uncommon to spot acorn woodpecker granaries — storage trees where the birds drill holes to store acorns and other types of nut. But this male (females have a black cap with red only on the back of the head) was extremely busy working on […]
Green
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Green.
More Sacramento Bar birds
When I visited Sacramento Bar one morning last week, I was hoping to see some beavers the Big Guy had reported seeing several times along the river. Unfortunately, the beavers were nowhere to be found, so instead I went looking for birds. I heard a lot more of them than I actually managed to spot; and I’m still trying to […]
Memory Monday slides redux, Week 22
My images this week date from 1956 and 1957. Although most of them were labeled with dates, I’m not always sure of the locations — like my first three photos, which seem to have been shot at the same spot. I’d love to think they were in the area of the Nimbus Dam (those hills in the background look very […]
Coloma sawmill
Among the trees
You could spend hours wandering through the trees and exploring the many trails found on Sacramento Bar, along the north bank of the American River in Fair Oaks.