Lake view
It’s very peaceful near the water’s edge, away from the busy, bustling world. On this cool, grey morning the quiet lap of the waves and a scatter of birds skimming through the misty fog are just enough, and no more.
Vietnam Memorial
In January 1986 I was lucky enough to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was an incredibly moving and humbling experience to me even though I had no names to search for. I grew up seeing coverage of the Vietnam War on the TV news every evening, but I was young enough that the conflict never touched […]
Local colors
Flowering maple, also known as Temple Bells (one of my favorites). I found these in Sacramento’s Capitol Park: A couple of local wildflowers — telegraph weed, AKA golden aster seen at Beals Point, Folsom Lake (above) and an unidentified plant growing alongside the American River (below): Wild chicory, growing near the Lake Natoma Crossing: These Lantana berries growing beside Leidesdorff […]
The Back of Things
Here’s my entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. Looking at the back of things can lead to interesting photos. Let’s see how creative you can get with this topic.
Folsom Powerhouse
On a cool day with the sky full of ever-changing clouds I went back to visit Folsom’s historic powerhouse for the first time in more than 20 years. A bright, airy visitor’s center has been added to this local state park, and I spent a few minutes strolling around in there before heading outside. For the moment I just want […]
The Adventure Continues… Capitol Steps
I’m a little embarassed to admit that after living my entire life in the Sacramento area, I had never actually visited the state capitol building until today. I became inspired to go explore it on Tuesday after watching this episode of California’s Gold, and I have to say I was not disappointed. In fact, I’m already looking forward to my […]
E is for…
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Letter E — Needs to have two E’s in the topic (needle, elephant, geese, peek, jeep, eye, etc.) You can always use adjectives and adverbs with a specific topic just make sure you give us the word that fits the requirements of this challenge. Steeple, Saints Peter and Paul Church, San […]
Bouncing animals
My walking stick
It’s a very odd feeling to look down in the dirt and spot a long yellow weed casually making its way across your path. As soon as I realized I was looking at a stick insect (Phasmatodea), I knelt down with my camera. Unfortunately, this was the best I could do, since he had no interest whatsoever in posing for […]