Flowers of Lafayette Square
Ornate survivors
I have heard the story of San Francisco’s great earthquake and fire in 1906 countless times, but walking around certain parts of the city can still bring the history back to life in unexpected ways. Visiting the California Academy of Sciences in 2016, I entered the earthquake simulator and experienced first the shaking of the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 […]
Worth stopping for
Our recent 5-day trip over to the Mendocino County coast didn’t exactly go according to plan. We had a series of things go wrong: heavy traffic both going and coming back, road construction all up and down Highway 1, gusty winds, and a bent rim on our rental car. But the trip wasn’t all bad. We took a drive north […]
Colors of July
The weather in Sonoma and Mendocino counties in mid July can be surprisingly chilly and grey, with morning fog and howling north winds. You also won’t find as many colorful blooms as in the springtime — but there are still plenty of eyecatching beauties to be seen. These are just a very small sample of the ones I’ve spotted, including […]
Oh, by the way
A lot of times I’ll shoot somewhat random photos that don’t really seem to fit anywhere; or, like some of these today, they happened at the beginning or tail end of a road trip and for that reason I somehow forget about them. Some of my most fun images were those I shot on impulse. So I decided to gather […]
Not so wild
Today I wanted to show some of the flowers we saw on our Texas roadtrip that were not wildflowers; I found them at hotels where we stayed and a few other spots. With so many beautiful wildflowers to be seen, I still noticed a few cultivated blooms, like the Hibiscus flowers in the yard next door to where we were […]
Wildflowers of San Francisco
I tend to write a lot about and share images of my favorite California city, San Francisco. But today’s post has absolutely nothing to do with the City by the Bay, because these photos were shot in northern Arizona. The San Francisco Peaks lie just north of Flagstaff and include the highest point in Arizona (Humphreys Peak, 12, 637 ft/3,852 […]
Santa Rosa Lake State Park
As we drove along Highway 40 to north Texas and back again, we passed so many light-brown signs along the road pointing toward different state parks. I felt some serious twinges of regret every time I spotted the familiar color-coded indicators, wishing we had time to stop and explore each park. New Mexico alone has 35 state parks — Ute […]
A peek at the Colorado
As we were driving through Southern California on the way to Arizona (and further east) in early June, the Big Guy decided he wanted to pause and look at the Colorado River. This vital waterway, originating in Rocky Mountain National Park, winds through the desert south of Lake Mead and marks the state line between California and Arizona. We have […]