I’m not exactly sure why it is that I love San Francisco so much; although my dad was born and grew up in nearby Richmond, I’ve never lived or even spent all that much time in the City. It wasn’t until 2016 that I began exploring San Francisco in my own way, finding my way around the streets and seeing […]
In recent years we’ve spent successive Christmas holidays traveling to Texas, and while we may not enjoy dealing with airports and 3-hour flights, it’s always wonderful to visit with the Big Guy’s family for a few days. There was a time when we spent every alternate year closer to home — for example during Christmas 2017, when we enjoyed the […]
I’ve written before about traveling back and forth between Sacramento and Clear Lake via Highway 16 and that it’s now my preferred route. It takes me from Woodland along Cache Creek, and most of the time I have this two-lane road to myself once I’ve passed the Cache Creek Casino near Brooks. I usually look forward to stopping at some […]
I do love the season of autumn; but for right now I’m finding comfort in memories of last spring, a season of hope and optimism, when wildflowers sprang up all around and I was able to go out to the Phoenix Park vernal ponds in between rain showers to breathe the fresh air and practice my macro photography skills with […]
Today I thought I would share a few images that I managed to overlook from the past year or so. Every now and then I’ll upload an image to my Media Library and then forget to insert it into my blog post, and that’s the case with the first three photos. I especially love the view of the Mendocino coast […]
Last Wednesday I drove out to Folsom Lake’s south fork with the Big Guy. He knew the old Salmon Falls Bridge was partially out of the water and wanted to try fishing from it. The last time I’d hiked the trail along Sweetwater Creek was back in 2020, so it’s been awhile! With the water level so low, it might […]
It’s been a while since I hiked along the old Folsom canal, but I’m looking forward to an organized walk along the canal tomorrow and hoping to learn more about its history. Today I’ve managed to dig up a few images from previous years, going back to 2016, shot at various locations along the course of the canal between the […]
These days I often go for months without ever even thinking about my Canon Powershot, let alone pulling it out and using it. It has no viewfinder, only an LCD screen on the back (non-articulating), and for a long time after I began using this camera, I was convinced that for me, viewfinders were absolutely useless. So much so that […]