The Lupine Shores camping area sits on the tip of a peninsula at the former site of Lake Berryessa’s Steele Canyon Resort. We visited here about a week ago and found the camping grounds closed for the winter. But in April 2024 it was open, and while the camp sites were still vacant, I found so many great places to […]
I noticed our first white camellia of the season just the other day — the red ones always open a bit later. And in less than 24 hours a bunch more had already burst from their buds. These three trees grow along the side of our house and for most of the year don’t get much attention, unless they start […]
A few more images from Lake Berryessa’s Steele Canyon area, April 2024.
Today I present some images from a couple of different October hikes in the same area along the American River’s south fork at Folsom Lake. The vibrant hues of spring may have been long faded, but there was still plenty of color to be found — in the Yellow Monkeyflower with its bright red spots, the scarlet Toyon berries, and […]
I always love seeing the flowers blooming whenever I visit my childhood home these days! Here is a collection of phone shots from the past few months.
We’ve spent the past two Christmas holidays with the Big Guy’s family in Texas. And while our visit in December 2023 was pretty much the epitome of a bad time, this year was much better — so I was surprised to find that I shot roughly the same number of photos both years. Still, the majority of pictures in 2023 […]
Northern California’s Lake Berryessa has seen many changes over the years since its construction in the 1950s, not all of them positive. While the reservoir provides flood control and drinking water for a number of communities along the west side of the Sacramento Valley, it’s also been a prime location for recreation facilities, administered by the California Bureau of Reclamation […]
A week or so ago I shared some photos from an outing to Caples Lake near Kirkwood and Carson Pass, and today I have a few more scenes from that trip. There were quite a few images that I overlooked until going back through my archives recently, and I’m always very happy to find pictures I’ve forgotten about, sitting there […]