Fingers of spring
Smooth
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Smooth.
Gray Monday
Ten odd rocks
When you’re hiking on Mississippi Bar, one thing you can be sure to find is plenty of rocks — in all sizes, shapes, and colors. After awhile, you’ve seen so many rocks everywhere you start to go a little bit rock-crazy; I had to stop myself from shooting every random boulder that caught my eye! I had the suspicion that […]
Mississippi pools
Mississippi Bar is very large, and these days most of it consists mainly of heaps of dredger tailings, trees of various sizes, and plenty of dirt trails. The area closest to the intersection of Main and Sunset avenues was occupied by Teichart Aggregates for many years; when the company moved out, they did quite a bit of re-landscaping to mitigate […]
King of the hill
I have no idea why someone decided to plant a flag atop of this pile of dredger tailings at Mississippi Bar. But I was happy to see it, because it was completely unexpected — and gave me a good excuse to climb to the top and check out the somewhat dreary landscape.
Isolated
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week: Isolated Subjects.
Early blossoms
Go with the flow
There is plenty of water on Mississippi Bar right now, thanks to all the storms we’ve had lately. Most of it seems to be collected within vernal pools and other depressions — but not this energetic little creek, rushing and bubbling its way toward Lake Natoma. I got a chance to play around with a slower shutter speed on my […]