Breathing Treatment

Updated from a 2009 blog entry based on feedback and review. We've camped at Lair of the Golden Bear in week 2 for many years now.  ...

I took these pictures last summer during a family vacation near Pinecrest.  Pinecrest Lake is shown below. I took a simplistic approach ...

Down by the creek. - Posted at great expense from my iPhone

I'm packing today - the house and for our Lair of the Bear vacation.  The blog may go into brief hiatus depending upon how much fun I...

Perhaps it's too small to be found in most popular references. This is all over the Sierra right now. Hypericum doesn't seem right....

My best guess is Arctostaphylos patula (Greenleaf manzanita). Iris hartwegii (Hartweg's Iris): This is smaller than the more widespread ...

Cool log cabin. There's a number of more modern structures and an extensive packing / camping operation out of here. This is just unde...

Lupinus stiversii (Harlequin lupine): Meadowlands, with a bazillion ladybugs. Dudleya calcicola (Limestone Dudleya), I think, on a granite o...

I'm at Lair of the Bear with family. Few wildflowers are to be found due to the recent end of winter. This meadow had one blooming pla...

Snow plants seem one of the first to bloom in the Sierra. They derive energy from soil mycorrhizae, which in turn get their energy ...

When I was at Lair of the Bear, I went mushrooming with Amy BeberVanzo. Here's a nice photo of her posing by road marker 5N67 - the fart...