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Lessons from the 2015 Willow Fire

The Week that Was: My story of the 2015 Willow Fire I heard the news online and called my husband,…

8 years ago

Larry Rettig’s melancholy and ‘Summer Treasures’

Here in the Sierra foothills of California, sometimes the Autumn season brings a feeling of melancholy to gardeners, faced with…

12 years ago

Up at dawn

Do you get up early?  I do,...but have found that many couples have one.  One that gets up at dawn…

13 years ago

Morning snowy foggy tree

Across the valley, where Willow Creek flows south, there is a tall sugarpine that becomes backlit at a certain point…

13 years ago

A mild Sierra foothill winter-February First Views

While going out to photograph my 'first views' of February in my California  mountain garden, I already know that my…

13 years ago

Our valley, one view, two photos

The first photo is from a set taken this month after a small fire broke out in the valley a…

13 years ago

More winter gardening ideas for the Sierra foothills

Did you think you were through gardening in California Sierra mountains?  Usually we have rain and snow, but noooo.  Here…

13 years ago

Fire cautions in the Sierra Foothills

We took this photo up on the hill above our house, in the California Sierra foothills on  Tuesday. There is…

13 years ago

Winter Solstice in the Sierra Foothill Garden

The winter solstice -- which marks the beginning of winter and the shortest day of the year in the Northern…

13 years ago

Sierra wind, whispering train coming

How the wind blows here... Here by the national forest, when you don’t hear anything unless there is something, you…

13 years ago

Orange in the Sierra Foothill Garden

Color in the garden Not only plants provide color in the Sierra foothills... On certain days in the fall, the…

13 years ago

Watering CA native plants in the Sierra foothills

Learning about watering for California natives ...and some Mediterranean plants in a home garden in the Sierra Foothills.   I…

13 years ago

Celebrate the Summer solstice

Welcome Summer! On the summer solstice which is today, the Northern Hemisphere receives more sunlight than on any other day…

13 years ago

Enjoying Yosemite, family tradition

As some of you know, I live very near Yosemite National Park, a place where my family has vacationed since I…

14 years ago

Silent, and soft, and snow

Everything in life is speaking, in spite of its apparent silence. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan  There is a way that nature…

14 years ago

Christmas Day Dawn

5:30 am- After making the coffee and finishing up last night's dishes and the family sleeps, turned around to see…

14 years ago