Colors, details, and wide vistas — all found on an autumn hike by the shore of Folsom Lake, on and around the Monte Vista Trail. I sometimes wish I could have seen this area before the building of Folsom Dam. It’s clearly very rich in history as well as plants and wildlife.
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 […]
I went digging in my archives looking for more forgotten images, and found quite a few from a visit to Caples Lake in August 2021. The lake is just down the hill from Carson Pass on State Route 88 in Alpine County. The pass was named after famed mountain man Kit Carson, while the lake’s current name (it has had […]
I’ve shared some of the images from this March 2023 hike before, but to be completely honest, I’m still not entire sure exactly where we were walking. I had found a hike in my trail guide book called Pole Line Trail to Big River Trail which told us to head east on Little Lake Road; but after driving deeper into […]
Anderson Marsh State Park remains one of my favorite spots to visit in Lake County, although I sometimes have trouble finding the perfect time to hike there. It seems that either the air is too hot and dry for a long march across the open grasslands or the ground is too muddy or even flooded for the trek out to […]
I suppose one “benefit” of being poorly organized is that occasionally you stumble upon photos you had forgotten to share. These are images from my visit to San Francisco Botanical Garden back in August 2021. I’ve explored this beautiful garden in Golden Gate Park two or three times now — always during the late summer — and I never get […]
Some images from my Folsom Lake hike, starting from Granite Bay and heading toward Doton’s Point, in early November this year.
Sometimes it surprises me when I go back and look through my photos to see what I’ve skipped over and forgotten or neglected to share. And occasionally, the surprise is that the photos that should be there, just are not. That happened to me this week when I made the unhappy discovery that more than two months’ worth of photos […]
Although I’m not really that great at it, I do love macro photography. And for whatever reason, I get pretty excited any time I spot a banana slug — now formally designated California’s Official State Slug — along the California coast in Sonoma or Mendocino counties. I had always assumed this was a normal reaction until my most recent trip; […]