Granite Bay hike
Some images from my Folsom Lake hike, starting from Granite Bay and heading toward Doton’s Point, in early November this year.
The Adventure Continues… Canoe Races
Concrete boats was not an entirely new concept to me, but until watching this episode of Visiting, originally aired March 2002, I never realized their construction was such a high-tech and complicated endeavor. This ASCE competition for engineering students started in 1988 and is still going on in 2024. The winners of this year’s finals competition were the University of […]
Around about the village
Sometimes it surprises me when I go back and look through my photos to see what I’ve skipped over and forgotten or neglected to share. And occasionally, the surprise is that the photos that should be there, just are not. That happened to me this week when I made the unhappy discovery that more than two months’ worth of photos […]
South fork and Sweetwater
Just because summer is over and the water levels at Folsom Lake are low doesn’t mean there is no life or color along the shoreline. There is always plenty of both, if you can take the time to slow down and look around.
Scenic Sunday
A May-December romance
As I sit at my desk writing this, it’s early December and the weather outside is grey, windy, and very wet. And while there’s a part of me that absolutely loves rainy winter days, I also look back with longing on the warm spring mornings like the one in late May when I took a stroll around the Turtle Pond […]
Miniature world (mostly slugs)
Although I’m not really that great at it, I do love macro photography. And for whatever reason, I get pretty excited any time I spot a banana slug — now formally designated California’s Official State Slug — along the California coast in Sonoma or Mendocino counties. I had always assumed this was a normal reaction until my most recent trip; […]
Summer monsoon
The final instalment of my images from Southlake, Texas, in June 2023. The Kirkwood Branch was swollen and muddy, and although I could see a trail on the other bank, I had no temptation to wade across. I knew if I stayed on this side and kept walking, I would eventually find the Big Guy at whatever spot along the […]
The Adventure Continues… Little Manila
It seems such a shame that progress so often tends to wipe away remnants of the past with its frequently rich culture and diverse ethnic heritage. That was the case in downtown Stockton, where construction of the Ort J. Lofthus Crosstown Freeway impacted not only the Filipino community but also those of the Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, and other minority groups. […]