My Annual Frank Valley Wildflower Safari and Census – Mount Tamalpais State Park

June 8, 2023 Whew, that’s a mouthful. And MAFVWSC-MTSP is not to be confused with my My Annual Autumn Color Sierra Photo Safari (that I haven’t been able to do since 2020, so not so annual after all). But it is springtime so after pumping some Flonase and Claritin D into my body, a fully

The Magical Light of Morning – Mount Tam

May 16, 2023 I’ve seen some really amazing views in my decades of hiking the various trails of Mount Tamalpais and elsewhere in California. But this past Saturday’s interplay of fog, sunlight and forest really took my breath away. I’ve posted variations of this type of image in the past, and I don’t discount the

Point Reyes National Seashore – Hike to Alamere – Photo Gallery (& some words)

April 24, 2023 Springtime weather is upon is, as is springtime pollen. After a long, wet winter and early spring flowers are blooming all along the Coast Trail out of the Palomarin Trailhead. I started at about 8:00 Friday morning (4/21) from the trailhead and headed north toward Alamere Falls. In all, I hiked somewhere

Today & Every Day – Cherish Mother Earth

April 22, 2023

Return to “Action” – Off the DL

February, 18, 2022 Another long layoff from an ailment. It seems that for way too much of the past few years, I seem to perpetually be getting over something. I use the quotation marks regarding a hike I took this morning (Mount Tamalpais, of course) because it was a decidedly not very action-filled hike. After

Tilden Regional Park – On the Cusp of Spring

March 13, 2021 It was around this time last year that my life – our lives – changed so profoundly. I’ve now been off work for twelve long months, and I’ve been incredibly fortunate that neither me, my family, nor my closest friends been infected by the virus. Nevertheless, it’s been a rough year for

The Fun Side of Marketing – Design

October 14, 2019 Admittedly, I’m not a marketing whiz. But I do enjoy blending my photographic skills with my also admittedly meager graphic design skills. That being said, I think what works best for designing marketing materials for photographers (in this case a new set of business cards) is simplicity. I was thrilled with the

Not Quite an End of Year Gallery – but close

November 6, 2017 I suppose it’s part of my Catholic upbringing – and the attendant guilt – that makes me feel as though I need to explain my absence from the world of Blog. It’s like going into a confessional, mumbling an Act of Contrition, and then reciting my opening statement, “Bless me father for

The Wildflowers of Mt. Tamalpais

July 4, 2017 Not that I’m self-important or deluded to the point of thinking my absence from the blogosphere has been noticed by my readers or the mainstream press, but I do apologize for my lack of recent posts. My workhorse MacBook Pro gave up the ghost/logic board back in March so I spent the

A Year of Photos – 2016

January 15, 2017 Usually these types of blog entries are done closer to the new year, but time got away from me a bit. I’ve also been busy working on my John Muir Trail book. It took me eleven months of nearly daily writing to finish the first draft. Brevity in the written word has