One of my favorite things to do is capture the world around me and share it. When my husband and I drove across the US in the summer of 2008, I was thrilled. Of course, I would have stopped to take a photo every hundred yards, so there were negotiations. I have included images from our trip here, along with photos from our various excursions and wanderings around the neighborhood.














Russian River, Mendocino County, California

Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Mendocino County, California
Long’s Peak (Beaver Mountain), Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Never Summer Mountains from Trail Ridge Road, RMNP, Colorado

Roosevelt Elk, Kawuneechee Valley, RMNP, Colorado

Great Sand Dunes, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colorado


Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Hecker Pass, Mount Madonna, California


Grand Canyon from North Rim, GCNP, Arizona

Grand Canyon and San Francisco Peaks from North Rim, GCNP, Arizona

Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park, Nevada


Camping in the Sierra Nevada, California


Darlingtonia californica, Oregon Coast

Tule Elk, Mendocino County, California
Mad River Beach, Humboldt County, California

Western Bluebird pair, Mendocino County, California

California Towhee, Mendocino County

Ladybug on lettuce, Mendocino County, California



















































