The Trinity River is being released through the upriver dams, and everywhere is flooding. It’s quite impressive.

Trinity County is having a hard time letting go of winter. One day it’s t-shirt weather, the next you’d better have your woollies.

On the morning of the summer solstice I was in quite a bad mood, so I didn’t bother to get out of bed. But I did get in a sunrise on that May walk I’ve been showing you for the last few days, and suddenly there was heat, the sound of birds, and all manner [...]

Taking pictures of ferns on Independence Day.

One morning in May I woke up at ridiculous-o-clock and couldn’t go back to sleep. So I went for a walk, and found a cool, sweet world swathed in mist and dew, a world that I hardly ever see. I walked and watched deer and rabbits and returned with a sense of well-being that I’d [...]

I would love to show you pictures of the snow-capped peaks up here in Weaverville, or the fantastic blossom-laden trees. The are snow white, pink and purple — great big fluffy cotton candy explosions that line highway 299 and most of the streets. It is picture-postcard scenic right now, on a sunny cold day with [...]

14 January 2009: If you stay in the same place too long, doing the same thing over and over, you tend to get stale and maybe even lose your sense of adventure for a while. It becomes easy to default to doing nothing, to creating busy work and losing yourself in front of a computer. [...]

I went to Weaverville with Kerry, and while waiting in the car noticed how pretty the shadows were against the walls of the old-town buildings.

The Trinity Alps had a fresh cap of snow. We were glad it stayed up there and didn’t come down to our level. Yeah, yeah, we kind of got over the snow. ;)