My favorite kind of day on the Mendocino Coast!

I found this Japanese platter while thrift-shopping- it’s a perfect shiny mandala (plus a few scratches)

There’s nothing beautiful in the world quite like a Manzanita

Penny found a curious hole…

Doyle Park, Santa Rosa CA is off-leash from 6-8am why aren’t more parks like that? Doggie splash-athons await!

A spectacular group of deep orange shrooms is growing on our wood chips!

Good morning, beautiful oak!

Violet, contemplating the meaning of color

Sunset on the Mendocino coast

Violet loves her stuffies

Cal-fire wants to log more mature trees from Jackson State Forest. Native Americans want their land back. They want to restore it, not log it for profit.

Reflections on a Japanese platter

Good night sun!

These poor mussels lost their rock and washed up on this Mendocino County beach. I’m a bit unmoored myself, these days.

Good morning Sun! Shining through a blown-glass vase

Random Nandina, “heavenly bamboo “

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Firmly, if haphazardly, planted

Lake County CA - cormorants roosting on their pole, over Tule Lake, in the setting sun.

Drennon Davis & Newt Fuck ICE

A poem by Amanda Gorman For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE on January 7th, 2026

Work of the WPA, some 90 years ago, more beautiful than ever today! Santa Rosa, Northern California

Spiral Into The Flames #art #photography #macro #abstract

Holding the Light: “it all comes down to this: In our imperfect world we are meant to repair and stitch together what beauty there is, stitch it with compassion and wire. See how everything we have made gathers the light inside itself and overflows? A blessing.” #KnitSky🧶 #JewSky

It wasn’t. A through. Road.

Say what?

Thought I’d share my bro’s photo of the port in Auckland. I wish I were there!

Violet’s not happy with the current political situation and she wants me to take her to Canada

My black widow friend is shy; I must have surprised her.

Our Black oak on Thanksgiving still held a smattering of autumn leaves

Under a light canopy of toyon and oak, a New Year surprise: pedicularis densiflora, blooming a few months early. I call them angel warriors.

Walrus is blissful in his trashpile

Happy new year! Step outside friends, and search for some winter flowers

Toyon: there’s hundreds maybe thousands on Potter Valley’s Mid Mountain, all loaded with a bumper crop of berries

Toyon among the pines

Toyon in oak woodland

12 days of toyon: day 8, With “Guido”

12 days of toyon: day 7

12 days of toyon: day six

Twelve days of toyon: day five

Twelve days of toyon: day 4

12 days of toyon, day three

May I live this day Compassionate of heart, Clear of word, Gracious in awareness, Courageous in thought, Generous in love. -John O’Donoghue

Gratitude for my sweet potted begonia which blooms constantly and doesn’t ask for much

12 days of toyon: day two

Twelve days of Toyon: day 1

Life in a wildfire

NOVEMBER #november #photography #blackandwhite #sky #clouds