Category: Nature

  • Back in the late Fall, after our return to the desert, I visited Sunnylands Center and Gardens in Rancho Mirage, CA. The gardens are open…

  • As usual, I’m months behind on my posts. I seem to get busy taking photos then post-processing them. Somehow, writing about my trips seems to…

  • My campsite had been booked several weeks in advance. As the date drew closer it became apparent that I was likely going to have a…

  • In mid-March, along with a group of fellow camera club members, I travelled to Moab, Utah. People often refer to the whole area surrounding the…

  • My last trip to Joshua Tree National Park this winter began early morning, just as the sun was starting to light up the sky. Getting…

  • At the end of January I participated in a photography workshop in Death Valley National Park. The workshop, run by the Out of Chicago group…

  • Just before Christmas I made another trip up to Joshua Tree National Park. As is my normal custom, I arrived nearly an hour before sunrise,…

  • Recently I had an opportunity to visit Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs. The garden features cactus, succulents and other plants found in various desert…

  • Two weeks after returning to our second home in California, after the “Covid year absense”, I returned to Joshua Tree National Park for the first…

  • About a month ago I went camping in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, just south of Hinton, Alberta. For many years, this area has…

  • A few weeks ago I spent an enjoyable 3 days photographing in David Thompson Country with my friend and photographer David Buzzeo ( Buzzeophotography.com )…

  • Just a single image this time. A simple mushroom in a patch of clover. A Leccinum boreale, I am told, Alberta’s provincial mushroom. Taken while…