Today, the last series of images from my trek up Mt Konocti last May. I do still have a few photos I’m not including because they’re very similar and/or because I would have to extend the series. And I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to move on to other topics! I’ll most likely share those images at a […]
After more than two hours of exploring — though it felt like only a few minutes — it was nearly time for me to leave the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden during my visit last October. I had agreed to meet the Big Guy down the road (near the Jug Handle Reserve) at noon, but still I slowed my steps as […]
We discovered Hendy Woods State Park in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley for the very first time in late October of last year. I was sorry we had arrived so late in the afternoon because I was more than happy to keep exploring the trails. However, the Big Guy was tired from fishing all day, and the sun was headed for […]
There are times when I’m so happy to be hiking through along a forest trail that I feel I’m stopping about every few steps to shoot a photo; and then there’s the time last May when I did actually manage to document nearly every step I took around the back of the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree. As I was doing […]
Whenever we spend a few days at Clear Lake and stay along the northeast shore in Nice, I usually feel the urge to take a walk up and down the short stretch of Lakeshore Boulevard behind the Worldmark hotel property. Over the years I’ve done this quite a few times, and it’s been interesting to see that for the most […]
I’ve been showing you a lot of photos from the areas of Lake, Napa, and Mendocino counties lately, so today here’s something a bit different — Flagstaff, Arizona. Last June on the second night of our road trip to Texas, we decided to treat ourselves to a stay at the 3.5 star Little America Hotel. We enjoyed the large, comfy […]
As we say goodbye to September, here are a few more images from my visit last June to the Route 66 Auto Museum in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
Today’s post title is actually borrowed from a recent library find that now graces my bookshelves: subtitled Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, it was written by Walter McClintock and originally published in 1910. While the North Trail at Mendocino Botanical Gardens isn’t all that old, the sign (see above) certainly looks like it’s survived a few hard […]
I’m always drawn to San Francisco’s Chinatown whenever I’m in the city, partly because of its history but also because there is always so much to see just wandering the sidewalks. With my hotel located on the lower slope of Nob Hill, I’m actually within walking distance of the Stockton Tunnel, and I used this as my gateway to Chinatown […]