Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you are of the opinion that I’m nuts for doing this sort of thing) I live close enough to the Sierra that by getting up at an absurdly early hour, knowing where all the Starbucks are located, taking a mid-afternoon nap in the car, and playing the radio loudly on the [...]
The wildflower season in the central section of coastal California is perhaps past its peak now, but there are still plenty of flowers and green foliage if you know where to look. A few photographs from this weekend:
This annual spring central California wildflower photography binge is just about to wind up [...]
For those of us who travel to the Yosemite high country and cross between the “west side” and the “east side” guessing when Tioga Pass will open is an annual sport. It seems that the fun has started, as I’ve seen the subject mentioned online several times during the past week or so. If you [...]
An AP article in SF Gate describes plans to build a couple bridges past the large landslide that covers the main road into Yosemite Valley via the Merced River. The last line of the article states:
Officials say they could close the Merced River for brief periods during construction.
I’m guessing that while they will likely have [...]
A couple wildflower photographs and a photograph of a lone tree atop the ridge near Dutch Flat, all from my short afternoon hike at Joseph Grant Ranch park today. (As always, larger versions of these photographs may be viewed at my Photography Gallery site.)
Yesterday morning I went up to Castle Rock State Park with a plan to do one of my usual loops out and around Goat Rock, this time with the goal of photographing some spring wildflowers. Although April is typically the start of the warm season in the SF Bay Area, it was “anything but” yesterday [...]
Today I was out early, hiking up some of my favorite trails (and not-quite-trails) to find more spring wildflowers. This time I went to Calero County Park in the hills south of San Jose. Most of the hills are still very green and the trees are leafing out. A few spots - on ridgetops, for [...]
Knowing that the central California wildflower season is just about at its peak, I went out for a short hike this morning at Almaden Quicksilver County park and photographed wildflowers along a few of my old favorite trails.
Three Purple Wildflowers. Almaden Quicksilver Park, California. April 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - [...]
I began the month with a four day trip to Death Valley. Rather than copying and pasting, here is a link to a story I posted at my photography web site.
Inspiration Point - a Better Valley View?
As I wrote earlier, I was in Yosemite Valley yesterday to do photography. I decided to finally do the hike up to Inspiration Point for sunset, foregoing the busy “scene” at the Wawona Tunnel View. This trail starts across the road from the more famous viewpoint and climbs 1.3 miles to the original road bed [...]
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