I suppose this post should have been a Throwback Thursday; instead it’s more like Flickr Friday. These are a few of my images saved on Flickr that I had forgotten about until just a few days ago when I went scrolling through searching for something else. Each of these was shot during the month of April between 2009 and 2016, […]
It’s not necessary for me to have any particular destination in mind when I visit San Francisco in the summer. It’s often enough to just wander around, keeping my eyes open. I’m always sure to find something that appeals to my camera. I shot most of these images with my Fujifilm point-and-shoot, which is perfect for this sort of street […]
There were a few nice things about this small park in Southlake, Texas. First, it was a fairly short drive from where we were staying, in an area we were already somewhat familiar with. The Big Guy was able to catch some bass there, and I was able to walk the circumference of the pond before leaving him there and […]
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 […]
On our recent trip over to the Mendocino coast, I had other things on my mind besides looking out for birds; but I was lucky enough to encounter a few, some of them quite literally at my front door. Although I frequently heard some of the hawks that I saw on our previous trip, I never got near enough to […]
It’s been nearly a year since I last visited Secret Ravine, tucked into one of the few remaining green spaces between Roseville and Rocklin. I’m never sure how much longer this tiny haven is going to remain, surrounded as it is by housing developments and major roadways, including Interstate 80. I had actually forgotten about this bunch of pictures which […]
The lighthouse at San Diego’s Point Loma is fairly familiar to me from visits back in the 1970s and early 1980s, but during those outings I never even realized there were tidepools nearby. Tidepools have always fascinated me. As a child I was always eager to explore the ones exposed at low tide around Fort Bragg in Mendocino County and […]
We knew we were in for some rain when we left home on Monday and headed for the Mendocino coast; but we didn’t realize we had an “atmospheric river” bearing down on us. Earlier storms had already left the coastal areas saturated, and our first clue was the detour on the Valley Ford Road west of Petaluma due to flooding […]