Here are some final shots from the Pacific Coast Highway near Monterey - it's an area that was simply shown as "Dune Park". ...

While in California last year we drove by the Merced National Wildlife Refuge , a 10,262 acre refuge. While the birds weren't in the are...

I took these photos Thursday morning. Yes, it's been snowing again! (This last photo was taken with my brand-new lens, a 6.5 mm fishe...

This week's Skywatch Friday post has no sky, just some stuff that fell from it last night. We get huge changes in weather from day to d...

Here is the last of my 1977 flower photos from Holland. This time it's a tulip field near Lisse , scanned from an old slide. I'm ...

I'm trying to put up at least one post a week, despite my move preparations. This week's effort is another 1977 photo from the Keuke...

The Keukenhof is a huge flower garden in Holland, with the most impressive display of flowers that I've ever seen. Here's the first ...

Going back to May of last year, here are some flower photos from the Fullerton Arboretum, taken on a mostly cloudy day. Don't ask me ...

San Luis Obispo, sometimes shortened to SLO, is a very pretty town. When we were there last summer, I photographed some flowers near the mis...

For all those lost on that terrible day 12 years ago.

From our vacation to California last month, here are a couple of photos from Koreatown, near downtown Los Angeles. First up some flowers fro...

It's Memorial Day here in the United States, and here are some flowers for it. Thanks to all the men and women who have made the ultimat...

From our Washington trip last month, here are some of the flowers we saw. First, two photos from the downtown Bellevue park: And finall...

I just got back from visiting relatives. If you don't know where this is, just look at the labels below the post. But it's a pretty ...

For the Scenic Sunday and Weekend Flowers memes, here is one of many beautiful blooms I noticed in San Luis Obispo this summer.

From a late-spring hike in Sesame Canyon, here's a wildflower... And a wild ladybug, slightly dented. This is for the Weekend Flow...

Here are some summer flowers at America the Beautiful Park, near downtown Colorado Springs. This post is serving double-duty, as I'...

Here are some photos I captured during a walk along the Portland (Oregon) riverfront when we visited for one day early last summer. First, f...

As we head into March, our snowiest month of the year here in Colorado Springs (April is our second-snowiest), I'm going to look back at...

While staying in Bellevue earlier this year, I took the opportunity to visit the Bellevue Botanical Garden , which was close to our hotel. I...