Funny how we never visit places we’ve lived near for years… After living in Ventura County for over fifteen years I realized that I’ve never visited one of our nations best national parks which is right around the corner from me: Channel Islands National Park. This morning I decided to go for a walk around […]

This coming September is going to be nice! Getting back to Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, and the Grand Teton is something I’ve wanted to do since I was there in 2018. I’ll be spending a little more time around the east end of Glacier National Park. I didn’t get a chance to go to the […]

It’s been fairly cool here in Southern California, but not as cool as it is in Texas this month! Hoping for the best for the people who live in Texas and that it starts warming up sooner than later. Below is an image I took in November in Yosemite Valley at Valley View. There wasn’t […]

I know this is a little late, but on February 2nd the groundhog saw his shadow, which means we have six more weeks of winter! I’m loving it because I love winter! Below is an image of snow on a log that I took in Yosemite in November 2020. This wasn’t the original composition. I […]

So many great features make up Yosemite National Park. One specific seems to draw a huge number of people to it: the meadow. One of my favorite meadows is Awhanee Meadow in Yosemite Valley. Below are two images I took while on my one day excursion last November. The fog in the early morning was […]

While in Yosemite on that turn around trip in November, I was trying to come up with some different ideas for a holiday card cover. The image I used (shown in the previous blog post) wasn’t planned. The one I planned for was of Half Dome from Ahwahnee Meadow with snow in the meadow. Well, […]

Every year I create a holiday card with one of my favorite landscape photos taken that year. Last year, while on vacation in Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra, I didn’t take an image I felt really worked for a card. I really wanted an image with snow in it and in October there was no […]

In autumn, unless there has been a rain storm, the south fork of the Merced River has basically slowed to a trickle.  It’s actually quite tranquil to sit along the pile of rocks and listen to the small amount of water making its way down stream.  I usually take one last look at the river […]

When in Yosemite, if you hike around the Wawona Meadow, there are a few interpretive plaques you can read along the trail. Below are two images of one of the plaques. It’s probably my favorite plaque out of all the plaques in the park. Read the last few lines regarding Galen Clark, which is the […]

One meadow trail I like to walk during the autumn season is the Wawona Meadow trail. This last autumn was no exception. I decided to walk the trail in the late afternoon, right before dinner. I thought since the Wawona Hotel was closed for the year for restoration there would be nobody walking the trail…well, […]