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Mono Lake
I traveled twice to Mono Lake, CA, which is right next to the pass into the back entrance of Yosemite. Mono Lake was created some 700,000 years ago when a volcanic eruption 2,500 times greater than...
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Volcanic Tablelands
The Volcanic Tablelands above Bishop, California were formed during the volcanic eruption 770,000 years ago that formed Mono Lake, 65 miles to the north. Ash was blown east as far as Nebraska, but...
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Signs of the times
I love signs, you may see more posts about them as I keep taking photos of them. I was amazed at these signs when I first started driving out here:16 miles of not being able to see where I’m going? The...
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Eureka Sand Dunes
Eureka Valley was high on my list of ‘must see’ places while residing near the Eastern Sierras, as the opportunity to photograph sand dunes so close to home base was calling me. One of the entrances to...
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Temecula Valley Wine Country
Today the rain cleared out, leaving behind fluffy white clouds scudding across the sky. Maurice Carrie vineyard’s windmill was spinning merrily in the breeze. Van Roekel Vineyard – lovely The days of...
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Deep Springs and Santa Rosa Plateau
I recently left the warm (ha, ha-far from it) Southern California, to travel north to Big Pine and Deep Springs. It really was only a ‘little’ colder there. This has been the coldest winter for SoCal...
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Route 395
It’s a LONG drive up and down Route 395, five hours at the minimum – add a few stops for leg stretching and lunch and it turns into seven very easily. I usually plug in my book on CD, and enjoy the...
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RV Life
In order to stay warm (chuckle) this winter, I opted to move to Southern California (SoCal). It turns out, SoCal has had their coldest winter in recent memory. My water hose started being unhooked in...
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San Ysabel
During one of my ‘longing for warm weather days’ this past winter, I traveled further south to San Diego taking a back route instead of the dreaded ’15′. I love the GPS option of ‘no highways’ and...
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Flora and Fauna
I posted a photo of one of the birds I’ve snapped out here on Facebook and one of my cousins asked for more, so I figured I’d do a big post with all I’ve photographed in the past week. It’s a veritable...
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Busy days!
The last few weeks have been an almost constant whirl of activity-hence the lack of posts to my blog. Washing and waxing the RV, coating the roof with UV protector, putting air in the tires, getting...
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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
My friends Laurie and Kevin had extended an invitation to their lovely Puget Sound island home, and I jumped at the chance to visit during April and tulip season. More later about the island. I visited...
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Hoover Dam
Perhaps there are a lot of you who don’t know about my fascination with bridges, buildings, structures – I think I should have been an engineer! I find it totally amazing when majestic marvels all come...
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Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
After driving my RV north from Temecula to Bishop in April, I traveled to Washington State (see Skagit Valley Tulip Festival posted May 7); after returning via Reno, went south to Las Vegas for another...
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Anza Borrego Desert State Park
I joined a wonderful photo club while residing near Temecula, CA called the Inland Empire Photo Club. While taking a class from wildlife photographer Richard Cronberg Cronberg Photography, he invited...
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Mule Days!
Bishop, California is the mule capital of the world. In celebration of the many mules that worked opening up the west, a gathering of mules and people who love them takes place every Memorial Day...
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Earthquake Country!
I traveled to Mammoth Mountain last week and have only just scratched the surface of the many sights there. Since its been 100 degrees and higher for 4 weeks now in the valley, going up to the higher...
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Abundant Wildflowers
Much to my surprise in this dry desert of California, there are a great many beautiful wildflowers. In the hot valley, not so much, but in the higher elevations they are quite amazing. I’ve been...
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Graveyards
I’ve always been drawn to graveyards and visit them regularly whether or not I know anyone lying therein. I commune with the spirits there. I wrote about a tribal graveyard previously in my posts...
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Devil’s Postpile
Devil’s Postpile located near Mammoth Mountain and Yosemite in California, refers to columnar basalt formed when lava flowed down the San Joaquin river valley 100,000 years ago and piled up thickly,...
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