Scenic Sunday
Memory Monday: Scenes from Soda Bay
Between 2014 and 2016, the month of May meant spending a week with the Big Guy and his parents at Soda Bay in Lake County, in the shadow of Mt Konocti. Rather than drive around and explore as I tend to do nowadays, my outings were restricted to walking distance from the area where we were staying, which happened to […]
Scenic Sunday
Delta day trip
Some sights from my trip to the Delta with the Big Guy in the last week of June 2025.
Scenic Sunday
Partway up a mountain
Of all the times I happened to be travelling along Highway 29 in Lake County (west of Clear Lake) and noticed the interestingly named Bottle Rock Road, I never imagined that one day I’d be turning onto that very road in search of a new hiking spot. It was already past noon when I arrived at Boggs Lake Preserve, on […]
Delta birding
A couple of days ago, the Big Guy finally managed to convince me to go along with him on a Delta fishing trip, promising me the chance to see all kinds of birds. I’m always reluctant to commit to an entire day — from early morning until dusk — of sitting on a bass boat under a hot sun (with […]
Russian Gulch rainforest
It’s been nearly five months since we were last at the coast in Mendocino County, and with all our recent trips to Texas, it seems even longer. Hopefully we’ll soon be able to plan another visit; but in the meantime, I still have a lot of photos from previous trips that I haven’t yet shared. Today, here’s a look at […]
Texas at random
Most of my time in Texas earlier this month was spent indoors, helping to sort through the belongings left behind by my dear father-in-law. But when I did have a few spare minutes to grab my camera, I could usually find something intriguing to shoot. I’m curious about the hippo statue (along with a lion, not pictured) found near the […]