Gila Cliff Dwellings - New Mexico

horny toad lizard

"Cookie"

saguaro cactus - Arizona

Colorado hunting trip - San Juan National Forest

Nevada

wild turkey chick

3 french hens, 2 turtle doves...

"and a possum in a pear tree"

Monterey Bay, Ca

Salmon season has been cut short this year due to low numbers coming out of the trouble Klamaath River. The sun painted a promise on the horizon. Six hours later - no fish in the box. And it's raining again.

give me shelter

stone corral, nevada

black rock desert, nevada

California poppy - the state flower

"copa de oro"

Monday

the vernal equinox arrived in a celebratory wet burst. a flash of blue punctuated the otherwise solid white gray wall pushing across Hidden Valley. through rain streaked glass i watched this jay work the seed. he had no regard for the down pour.

dead saguaro cactus in Arizona

Arizona

hen in launch position

AÑO NUEVO BEACH

turkeys in the mist

The hens drop by in the morning to check for left over bird seed.

Golden Valley Wilderness

walk through the winter desert and know the sun's energy

Last Chance Canyon - Mojave desert, California

resistant volcanic breccia, tuffaceous sandstones, sedimentary material, ash ejecta. rivers and streams cut through the strata carving a dramatic profile. as you hike along the floor the canyon walls vary from shades of gray, to red, black and buff white. embedded in the walls and buried throughout the washes are fossil remains of three-toed browsing horses, a species of short-legged camel, wolverine, shrew, and saber tooth cats.

Red Rock Canyon & Golden Valley Wilderness

Mojave Desert

ancient lava flows, basalt, volcanic tuff - the mineral tales of a vibrant sea bed dormant for the past 200 million years. jackrabbits bust from the cover of saltbrush, coyotes sing at dusk and dawn, quail and chukkar seek cover in the brittle grasses, and nervous road runners whip across the flats.

Witch's butter - Elkhorn Estuary

soft gelatin feel, rich butter color, a weird and wonderful fungus

Tremella Mesenterica

elkhorn estuary

dancing

hidden valley

an afternoon study of light in the back yard became "thirteen ways of looking at a blue pole"

hidden valley

a sunset in the blue swirl and brown grain.

Moss Landing beach

Zmudowski Beach, Ca

the sky, solid grey
the ocean, churning
the beach, deserted

The arm of the sea

the ocean gentles itself as it rolls slowly into the slough. the shallows are full of crab and anchovy, the shores with white crane and gull. i walked four miles through the winding estuary paths without encountering another human.

morning rain

the tide pools at Point Loma

autumn

birds of a feather

ice in grayscale

skull on granite

Sunday sidewalk

rustlers

scent wild

downtown

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