The Week that Was: My story of the 2015 Willow Fire I heard the news online and called my husband,…
Here in the Sierra foothills of California, sometimes the Autumn season brings a feeling of melancholy to gardeners, faced with…
Do you get up early? I do,...but have found that many couples have one. One that gets up at dawn…
Across the valley, where Willow Creek flows south, there is a tall sugarpine that becomes backlit at a certain point…
While going out to photograph my 'first views' of February in my California mountain garden, I already know that my…
The first photo is from a set taken this month after a small fire broke out in the valley a…
Did you think you were through gardening in California Sierra mountains? Usually we have rain and snow, but noooo. Here…
We took this photo up on the hill above our house, in the California Sierra foothills on Tuesday. There is…
The winter solstice -- which marks the beginning of winter and the shortest day of the year in the Northern…
How the wind blows here... Here by the national forest, when you don’t hear anything unless there is something, you…
Color in the garden Not only plants provide color in the Sierra foothills... On certain days in the fall, the…
Learning about watering for California natives ...and some Mediterranean plants in a home garden in the Sierra Foothills. I…
Welcome Summer! On the summer solstice which is today, the Northern Hemisphere receives more sunlight than on any other day…
As some of you know, I live very near Yosemite National Park, a place where my family has vacationed since I…
Everything in life is speaking, in spite of its apparent silence. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan There is a way that nature…
5:30 am- After making the coffee and finishing up last night's dishes and the family sleeps, turned around to see…