November 2017

All There is to See
Sequoia National Park, California
2017

On a clear day, from this vantage point in the Sierras you can see far out across the San Joaquin Valley thousands of feet below. On this day we saw fog, lots of it. It was however quite a dramatic experience as the winds kept pushing streams of fog up against and over the ridge and occasionally even clouding the view of the edge from where I was standing a short distance away.

You Want Fries With That?
Exeter, California
2017

Other than some nice strong afternoon light, there’s nothing particularly dramatic about this scene–unless you’ve just left Montana in the middle of a snow storm and now you’re sitting outside in t-shirt weather. I would not have wanted to be in Exeter a month earlier when it was 105, but the temps were just right in mid-November.

Getting Some Z’s
Sequoia National Park, California
2017

Disturbance
Exeter, California
2017

Family Time
Exeter, California
2017

Family time, or what passes for it these days (he’s engrossed in his smart phone).

Sacred Datura
Exeter, California
2017

Sacred Datura, a.k.a. Jimson weed, is a familiar plant to desert wanderers and also readers of Carlos Castaneda’s book The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Reading that book while an undergraduate in Kansas in the early 70s was instrumental in my decision to apply for graduate school in Arizona. It was not the books treatment of the use of Sacred Datura that drew me to Arizona however; rather it was that the book (along with perusing various issues of Arizona Highways magazine) made me fall in love with the Sonoran Desert even though I’d never been there before.

Lives Real and Imagined #46
Exeter, California
2017

Lives Real and Imagined #45
Exeter, California
2017

Urban Forest
Exeter, California
2017

Dreaming of a Previous Life
Exeter, California
2017