When I visited Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis) last August, it was an amazing feeling to stand in the original 18th century mission chapel. But eventually I left the old church and entered the newer basilica (built in 1918). There I found a series of beautiful stained glass windows depicting the original 21 California missions. I managed to photograph […]
Here are the remainder of the stained glass windows I photographed at San Francisco’s Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis) last August. I’ve also included two pieces in honor of Father Junipero Serra (1713-1784) and Father Francisco Palou (1723-1789).
I had some rather cute visitors to my back porch the other morning — a couple of green anole lizards and one Texas spiny lizard. The latter was so very shy that I was very lucky to get one shot at it before it fled; whereas the anoles didn’t seem to mind my presence much at all. Still, I did […]
I had planned to do a bit of hiking on this trip, but since I managed to bruise my foot on our first night in Keller, Texas, those plans didn’t work out. Luckily for me, there are plenty of birds to be seen very close to our house — and of course my favorites are the cardinals. I shot most […]
Although I’ve never read any of Larry McMurtry‘s books and never watched the Lonesome Dove TV series, I had enough awareness of them to enjoy the intersection of fiction and reality found at this historic cemetery in Weatherford, Texas (about an hour’s drive west from where we are staying). The main characters of McMurtry’s novels are said to be loosely […]
Memories from our Mendocino County stay last year around this time. I shot all these pictures in and around our small ridge-top cabin.
There’s always so much beautiful scenery along Interstate 40 in Arizona. Much of it I don’t manage to shoot because I’m driving and don’t really want to stop every few minutes. But once the Big Guy takes over driving in the afternoon, I can point my camera at whatever I like.