Scenic Sunday
A walk on the beach
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 […]
Walking to Manchester
Mendocino County has such a beautiful coastline that it can be frustrating when we often find access blocked by private property and “No Trespassing” signs. I’m really grateful that the California Coastal Commission is always working to protect the state’s coastal habitats and to improve access to beaches and bluffs. Whenever we get over to the coast for a few […]
Coastal sunshine
Our mid-November trip over to the Mendocino coast was short but very sweet — just what was needed after our trip in September caused more stress than it eased. Even though our November stay started off with a jolt from a minor earthquake (with the epicenter only a few miles away from Point Arena) and we lost part of one […]
The old North Trail
Today’s post title is actually borrowed from a recent library find that now graces my bookshelves: subtitled Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, it was written by Walter McClintock and originally published in 1910. While the North Trail at Mendocino Botanical Gardens isn’t all that old, the sign (see above) certainly looks like it’s survived a few hard […]
All the colors
Going deeper into the Botanical Garden, I took the North Trail which led me through the Woodland Forest and closer to the fuchsia garden.
Botanical morning
More mid-morning images from the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in late October 2023.
A walk through the gardens
Even though I’m eager to share my most recent shots from San Francisco, I also realized that there are loads of earlier photos still waiting to be seen; and I’m so disorganized that I already forgot about them! So this week I’m going back a few months to our trip to Mendocino in October 2023. One of my favorite spots […]
Greenwood Beach at Elk
