Looks like my trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park is not going to happen. There is a terrible fire tearing through Shasta County, around the city of Redding. Lassen Volcanic National Park is about 47 miles east of Redding and is receiving a lot of smoke which is making the air quality really bad. Please […]

One of the best features in Yosemite is the granite. The granite domes, cliffs and the sometimes unique stacked formations make the park such an amazing place. Below are two photos I took on the last day of my trip up to Yosemite in June along Tioga Pass. The first is of stacked granite. While […]

Saturday was a great day! My sister, niece and I went to see the King Tut exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Talk about a great exhibit! This will be the last tour of the Tut exhibit before it heads to the U.K. and then on to Cairo, where it will be […]

The photo below I took while hiking up to Lembert Dome early one morning in Tuolumne Meadows. I didn’t take this specific photo from Lembert Dome, but the granite dome next to it. It seemed to have better angles for the photo. The river is the Tuolumne River running through the east end of Tuolumne […]

Below are two photos I took when I was in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in June. The first photo is of Crescent Meadow, which is a short drive from Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park. It was so peaceful in the meadow, especially being there around 7am. I had the whole meadow to […]