Breathing Treatment

We spent the morning working this beautiful area with degraded habitat near Los Angeles International Airport. I found some cool Great Ho...

 Ahhh. Sunset at Point Vicente on October 16th.  What could be more beautiful?

I learned that there's a Mediterranean climate in Canada's coastal islands in the vicinity of Victoria. A Garry oak woodland on man...

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

It's my favorite time of year - fall.  Fall in the southern California mountains has some nice surprises in it - even those plants that ...

We hit the trail early the next day. The young men I traveled with were 15, 16, and 15 years old (left to right below).  This was their firs...

One of the highlights of my summer was a backpacking trip in Kings Canyon.  Here we are on approach:

Looking across the lake at Painted Lady peak. This was a camping spot one night. There's tons of great botany here, but that takes ...

I had emailed my local CNPS Chapter Vice President, David Sundstrom, a couple weeks ago about some Broom plants growing above Western on th...

I had the great pleasure to lead a group of Scouts on a backpacking trip in the Malibu mountains last weekend.  We hiked a segment of the Ba...

I was backpacking with my son in the area behind Ojai, California last week. We hiked down the Sespe Creek about 10 miles and overnighted a...

Juli and I had a nice vacation in northern California over New Years. We stayed in the town of Napa, which has a certain amount of appeal a...

I'm busy doing some things other than blogging.  One of the fun things I'm doing is familiarizing myself with local trails.   It tur...

I went backpacking with the Boy Scouts to Point Dume back in March. I'm happy to report that the wildflowers were magnificent! There ...