As summer approaches and the daytime temperatures in the Sacramento Valley start to soar, it’s time for me to practice some serious discipline — rolling out of bed while it’s still dark outside, downing a quick protein shake and a piece of fruit, and heading outdoors while the air is still cool enough to make me shiver. It’s much easier said than done — although […]
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of May 24, 2017. This week, show us a moment in time that holds meaning for you. On this morning’s hike I wandered off my regular route to a small side trail that I usually skip. The path is all but obscured by high weeds and crowded by poison oak and thistle plants; […]
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of May 10, 2017. Whether it’s water or some other reflective surface, what have you seen recently that has changed your perspective on the view?
There was something fascinating to me about this plant, growing alongside my hiking trail on Mississippi Bar. Among all the varieties of weeds now flourishing wildly over the landscape, this particular thistle, brazenly rising up tall and straight beside the narrow track, caused me to pause — cautiously — for a closer look. Silybum marianum has other common names include cardus marianus, milk […]
Seasonal pools on Mississippi Bar:
The theme this week for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is Things That Look Like Faces. I am looking or anything that looks like a face. It can look like a human face or any animal. Create a face in your salad with the different veggies and snap a photo. Use different things around your house to create a face. Have fun […]
After my post one week ago, On the Art of Stacking Rocks, I quickly learned (again thanks to MickETalbot) that there is a very definite and important difference between merely stacking a bunch of rocks one on top of the other and the feat of coaxing one or more rocks to balance harmoniously in gravity defying positions. If I may quote from his […]