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