All the colors
Going deeper into the Botanical Garden, I took the North Trail which led me through the Woodland Forest and closer to the fuchsia garden.
Botanical morning
More mid-morning images from the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in late October 2023.
A walk through the gardens
Even though I’m eager to share my most recent shots from San Francisco, I also realized that there are loads of earlier photos still waiting to be seen; and I’m so disorganized that I already forgot about them! So this week I’m going back a few months to our trip to Mendocino in October 2023. One of my favorite spots […]
Greenwood Beach at Elk
Flowers of Lafayette Square
Worth stopping for
Our recent 5-day trip over to the Mendocino County coast didn’t exactly go according to plan. We had a series of things go wrong: heavy traffic both going and coming back, road construction all up and down Highway 1, gusty winds, and a bent rim on our rental car. But the trip wasn’t all bad. We took a drive north […]
Newport Coastal Trail
We went looking for potential new fishing spots north of Fort Bragg, hoping to reach the town of Westport and maybe a bit beyond. Leaving behind gusty north winds in Point Arena, the Big Guy had only a vague idea of what he was looking for, but we were enjoying the process of exploration. Just a little south of Bruhel […]
Colors of July
The weather in Sonoma and Mendocino counties in mid July can be surprisingly chilly and grey, with morning fog and howling north winds. You also won’t find as many colorful blooms as in the springtime — but there are still plenty of eyecatching beauties to be seen. These are just a very small sample of the ones I’ve spotted, including […]
Not so wild
Today I wanted to show some of the flowers we saw on our Texas roadtrip that were not wildflowers; I found them at hotels where we stayed and a few other spots. With so many beautiful wildflowers to be seen, I still noticed a few cultivated blooms, like the Hibiscus flowers in the yard next door to where we were […]