Our recent 5-day trip over to the Mendocino County coast didn’t exactly go according to plan. We had a series of things go wrong: heavy traffic both going and coming back, road construction all up and down Highway 1, gusty winds, and a bent rim on our rental car. But the trip wasn’t all bad. We took a drive north […]
We went looking for potential new fishing spots north of Fort Bragg, hoping to reach the town of Westport and maybe a bit beyond. Leaving behind gusty north winds in Point Arena, the Big Guy had only a vague idea of what he was looking for, but we were enjoying the process of exploration. Just a little south of Bruhel […]
The weather in Sonoma and Mendocino counties in mid July can be surprisingly chilly and grey, with morning fog and howling north winds. You also won’t find as many colorful blooms as in the springtime — but there are still plenty of eyecatching beauties to be seen. These are just a very small sample of the ones I’ve spotted, including […]
Clovis is a classic small California town, founded back in 1891 and now growing beyond anything Mr. Clovis Cole could have imagined. I’ve never spent much time in this part of the state, but if you’ve ever traveled to the southern Sierra near Huntington or Shaver lakes you would have passed right through Clovis — just east of Fresno — […]
A lot of times I’ll shoot somewhat random photos that don’t really seem to fit anywhere; or, like some of these today, they happened at the beginning or tail end of a road trip and for that reason I somehow forget about them. Some of my most fun images were those I shot on impulse. So I decided to gather […]
Today I wanted to show some of the flowers we saw on our Texas roadtrip that were not wildflowers; I found them at hotels where we stayed and a few other spots. With so many beautiful wildflowers to be seen, I still noticed a few cultivated blooms, like the Hibiscus flowers in the yard next door to where we were […]
I tend to write a lot about and share images of my favorite California city, San Francisco. But today’s post has absolutely nothing to do with the City by the Bay, because these photos were shot in northern Arizona. The San Francisco Peaks lie just north of Flagstaff and include the highest point in Arizona (Humphreys Peak, 12, 637 ft/3,852 […]
A few images from my visit to San Francisco in August 2023.
These days you’ll find a lot of vineyards in other parts of California, but Napa is still a strong wine-producing region. Still, as Huell has said, there’s so much more to this beautiful Northern California county. I’ve never spent much time in the Napa Valley, but my short visit to the Calistoga area last May was a super fun experience. […]