Mendocino Headlands View

A red-clad visitor sits on a bench under a cypress, gazing out to sea. These cliffs are dangerous, and rescue crews are called out to help the imprudent every year. It's especially sad to read of pets falling to their deaths.

Bright Berries on Wild Honeysuckle

Christmas on the Navarro Ridge

Late Autumn California Poppies

Christmas Skunk Train Debarkation

Oaks With Old Man's Beard

Most of the oaks in Little Lake Valley are draped with a harmless pale-green lichen called Old Man's Beard. Only the dark green velvety plants, directly on the bark, are actually moss.

Indie Bookstore

Shopped at Mendocino Book Company in Ukiah, hoping it can hang on in these turbulent times.

The Work of Acorn Woodpeckers

A roadside salad of moss, evergreen broadleaf California laurel, and Old Man's Beard lichen, along the Reynolds Highway.

Two Ravens in Willits

Two ravens preen in the crown of an oak tree. I walked around noticing other things, then came back to one preening the other...

Sometimes she stopped her attentions to his feathers to softly make rapid knocking sounds in her throat, just for him.

Birch Leaves on Parking Stripes

Down by the Old Mill Stream...

Or, more specifically, the Muir Mill stream a.k.a. Baechtel Creek.

Autumn Anemones

Pain with a Purpose

At the Hospital

Waiting…

 Waiting…

Waiting for the loved one's return from repair.

First Autumn Rain

In Memory

Hometown son, Jesse Pittman, a member of the Navy Seals, was remembered today in a large event down in Ukiah. Up in Willits, Main Street was lined with American flags in his honor.

New Movie, Old Theater

Datura in Evening Light

Walnut Rind in Evening Light

Tomato Season

Bee, Blissful

What the Eyes See

Ectiv… Ency

I committed no malic, or other dama … this property. But I did eat the ripe blackberries.

A Haze of Smoke, Over Dry Meadows

A Bookstore Wall, Revisited

Punctured Gossamer

Nearly Ripe Oregano and Tomatoes

Summer Market Colors

The Last of a Band-tailed Pigeon

Old Workplace, Revisited

Dawn Light on Steel

 

 

 

The rising sun illuminates disused commercial structures.