Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Full moon rising through clouds lit by alpenglow at sunset, Desolation Wilderness, near Lake Tahoe, California.
Last night I had one of those pure “Doh!” moments. The root cause of this started 24 hours previous on Wednesday evening. I’d been out tending our new garden when I looked up over the trees and saw a [...]

During every other week of summer, our city offers a free concert in the park. It’s a good place for a Sunday evening picnic, let the kids run around, dance, and hear some music. Most of the time, these are just local cover bands. But this weekend was refreshingly different; a local female-led rock band, [...]

I’d written recently about some time I’d taken off from normal business while working on outside projects, including the landscaping of our backyard. I thought I was done, and last week was ready to get back to my normal routine. Then came the flies in the ointment. First, my idea of finishing the landscaping was [...]

Last night I was escaping the lull in the current heat wave by enjoying the night air (81 degrees F) lounging in my patio recliner. As I looked up, I saw a bright light moving through the sky. Normally, I’d just chalk it up to being another one of those body-snatching UFO’s… er… I mean, [...]

Picture: Storm light on Bridalveil Fall, from Tunnel View, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

See a much larger version of this image. This photo was taken this last spring from the most famous, most photographed vantage point in Yosemite Valley, called Tunnel View. The title is meaningful for me, because as of this last weekend, [...]

Picture: Shadow of space shuttle exhaust plume pointing to a rising full moon at sunset.
People who have followed this blog, or seen my email signature know that I have a fascination with space sciences. One place that I feed my fascination is that APOD; Astronomy Picture of the Day. This is where the current posted [...]

Justin Black, who originally took over my old job, and now run Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light Gallery, has posted a series of questions on “Turning Pro” over at Photo.net. It has generated some very interesting discussion worth reading. I was short on time, so I just made a quick reference back to my recent post, [...]

Picture: Grape vines on hillside at Viansa Vineyards, overlooking the Viansa Wetlands, Los Carneros Region, Sonoma County, California
My wife and I recently got to spend our first consecutive two nights away from our kids since our oldest was born eight years ago. We stayed at a new resort at the base of the Napa Valley, [...]