blackoaknaturalist

  I've been reading Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell, and the spirit of that book became very real as I took my first two h...

  I went back to the split-rail fence where yesterday I photographed Spring Whitlow Grass, known to botanists as Draba verna,  to try to get...

My second day back on the BLOG, and my skills are rusty. These photos are are in the reverse order of my intention, so I'll sort of tell...

 I'm back! - I think.... It's been over a year since I last posted. When my college classes had to go online in response to the arri...

 Hiking with my son on a trail on My. Hough, I saw two animals that got my attention.  The first was the biggest Mule Dee buck that either o...

 Click on each photo to see close-up. I wasn't even in a photography mood yesterday when I was meandering around Oakland Feather River...

The Trail Plant, Adenocaulon bicolor, is a hard one to photograph. The intriguing feature to those without a hand lens is the bi-colored l...