The Otis R. Johnson Wilderness Park in Fort Bragg may be relatively small, but when I visited last November I found it nearly impossible to go more than a couple of steps without shooting another picture. I didn’t get to explore as thoroughly as I wished because recent rains had left the ground very muddy, and the trail that I […]
It still hasn’t fully sunk in with me that spring has arrived. Late last January we made a day trip over to Lake Berryessa and found the skies completely clear and the temperatures surprisingly warm. The only clues that we were still in the throes of winter were the absence of other people along the lakeshore and the fact that […]
I’ve written before about passing through Clarendon, Texas, on our travels to and from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I never manage to shoot very many photos because our stops are so brief — but this time we actually did spend a night in town. Unfortunately, the wind was pretty much howling and the chilly evening temperatures didn’t encourage much exploring […]
When I visited Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis) last August, it was an amazing feeling to stand in the original 18th century mission chapel. But eventually I left the old church and entered the newer basilica (built in 1918). There I found a series of beautiful stained glass windows depicting the original 21 California missions. I managed to photograph […]
Here are the remainder of the stained glass windows I photographed at San Francisco’s Mission Dolores (San Francisco de Asis) last August. I’ve also included two pieces in honor of Father Junipero Serra (1713-1784) and Father Francisco Palou (1723-1789).
I had some rather cute visitors to my back porch the other morning — a couple of green anole lizards and one Texas spiny lizard. The latter was so very shy that I was very lucky to get one shot at it before it fled; whereas the anoles didn’t seem to mind my presence much at all. Still, I did […]
I had planned to do a bit of hiking on this trip, but since I managed to bruise my foot on our first night in Keller, Texas, those plans didn’t work out. Luckily for me, there are plenty of birds to be seen very close to our house — and of course my favorites are the cardinals. I shot most […]