This past winter, Lake O’Hara Lodge again offered us a summer stay in one of their lake cabins. Given how difficult it is to secure a reservation, and how much we enjoy staying there, we happily accepted. This year’s five night stay was in mid-July, only a few weeks after the winter’s heavy snow had […]
California Wildflowers
Every winter I anticipate the upcoming Spring and the arrival of wildflowers. This year, I was on high alert due to the amount and timing of the Fall & Winter rains in California, which hinted at excellent upcoming blooms down there. Then in late February reports started appearing of excellent blooms emerging in Death Valley. […]
Steens Mountain Fall Color, 2025
Every autumn I try to get out to Oregon’s Steens Mountain to shoot its aspen color. Steens’ groves display a beautiful spectrum of red (at highest elevations), orange, yellow, and still-green colored trees. This is unlike the aspens that I have seen elsewhere in the western states, in which most or all of a grove […]
Lake O’Hara 2025
During our incredibly fortuitous and fantastic stay at Lake O’Hara Lodge in the Canadian Rockies last Fall (click for details), we requested a return stay anytime this year. And we were notified last December that a 5 night stay in a lake cabin in mid-August was available for us. We accepted even though August is […]
Rafting the Grand Canyon & Other SW Adventures
My friend, Andy, the Starr Van and I spent a month in the Southwest in April & May. The trip’s impetus was a ten day photography workshop we signed up for last year to raft the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River. And we added 10 more days on both sides to explore other locales in the […]