Managed to catch the partial solar eclipse yesterday—no fog! But no safe viewing glasses so we improvised.

Here's an opportunity to gather together images by season. As those who know me already know, I am obsessed by the seasonal manifestations of our earth tilting back & forth while circumnavigating its star. Here are some spring offerings I...

Driving around in this variable weather gave me the opportunity to analyze how clouds really look. A lightbulb went off in my head as I realized that one can't see the characteristic fluffy top of a cloud when it hovers...

Here is some lichen and old man's beard I found on a plein air excursion down the peninsula. Lichen is the result of a nice symbiotic relationship between green algae and a fungus. They are remarkably vulnerable to air purity...

When I first came to California, I didn't recognize a lot of the plants, because so many would never thrive on the East Coast. I started gardening in earnest in 2004, with my first garden. Luckily, my neighbor, a Dutch...

Every year at this time, the berries of the Pyracantha and Cottoneaster get ripe—really ripe as in fermented—and the birds go nuts. It sounds like a party all day long as flocks of beautiful Cedar Waxwings and over-wintering Robins hang...

On Christmas Day, my friend Nancy took me to the Dolphin Club in San Francisco. I am fascinated at the ability of people to be able to withstand the terrible cold of our San Francisco Bay. I appreciate the love...

In July I visited Corsica, which is a province of France, though I don't think the inhabitants are too keen about that. (Witness the crossed out French translations of Corsican village names on the signposts). But this island has the...

I am fortunate to have family in France and I go as frequently as I can. Before going to St Cannat, a tiny village in Provence where my sister lives, she and I packed in as many adventures as we...