Wandering the trails I’ve found all along the Mendocino coast never fails to make me feel good. I’m sure there are many more paths to be discovered, and I may never get to hike them all. But even returning to one that’s already familiar, it’s impossible to feel bored, surrounded by all this natural beauty.
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 […]
Aquamarine breakers trimmed in whitewater lace. To me, it’s a beautiful sight, seen all too rarely. To the Western gull, it’s just another day.
The last set of images from our walk along Manchester Beach and back to our rental house on the Mendocino coast, November 2024.
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 […]
Although this one-hour episode of Visiting originally aired in August 2006, I do feel like it’s fitting, as we say hello to a brand new year, to take a long look at the the stars that surround us, to consider our place in the universe, and to ponder where we have been and where we are going. Another more personal […]
We walked from the house where we were staying over to Manchester Beach via an unpaved road cutting through what was once private property but is now part of a State Park Nature Preserve. I’m hoping to get a chance to explore this area further; both times I walked out this way it was late afternoon and I ended up […]
