Inside out

I’ve never seen trees burned from the inside out before, and walking through the scene of the River Fire on Sacramento Bar, it seemed that almost every burned oak tree suffered the same fate. The cause of the fire is apparently still under investigation, and when I consulted Google for some explanations, I couldn’t find any satisfying answers. Many of […]

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Meet the beetles!

A few days ago, I went out to the American River in nearby Fair Oaks with the Big Guy; I wandered around with my camera while he was busy fishing. It wasn’t until I decided to join him on the river bank that I noticed the nearby bushes were absolutely covered in small dark blue beetles. They were so tightly […]

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