Category: Nature

  • Day 5 started with rain. While refuelling the boat I regretted that we hadn’t done this the afternoon before when it wasn’t raining.  Soon we…

  • In late May we drove out to Nanaimo, BC to start a 2-week sailing trip. At 4 pm the evening before our charter started, we…

  • Earlier this spring I took part in a weekend photo workshop in Drumheller, Alberta.  The workshop was put on by Darlene Hildebrandt ( digitalphotomentor.com ), an…

  • Our return from the desert this spring took us to the Napa Valley then north along the Oregon Coast and into BC.  To do the…

  • During winter in the desert, talk often turns to the chance of rain in the forecast.  Will it cause flash flooding?  Will it be enough…

  • Yosemite.  The name is magical.  The scenery is amazing.  An area perhaps most made famous by photographer Ansel Adams, it is place to which landscape…

  • Being a prairie boy from Alberta, I really didn’t associate waterfalls with deserts until we started spending winters in Southern California. Certainly deserts are very…

  • Hero.  Scoundrel.  Rancher.  Miner.  Entrepreneur.  Homesteader.  Engineer.  Convicted Murderer.  Felon. Hard working.  Inventive.  Do-it-yourselfer. Father. Husband.  Wheeler Dealer.  Perhaps all of these terms could be…

  • 4 am.  Saturday morning. Is that my alarm already?  I crawled out of bed and quietly got ready to leave.  Out the door at 4:30.…

  • Over the past month I have been on two hikes in two very different yet similar environments.  Similar in that they are both desert-type environments…

  • In mid-November I decided that an overnight camping trip to Joshua Tree National Park was in order.  It would give me a chance to do…

  • In early November, I joined a group of fellow photographers from the camera club to which I belong for a 5-day outing to Zion National…