Looking at things is very different from seeing them
09:45: The Cloud 9 Shuttle is picking us up at the Hotel and at 12:30 we are leaving San Diego towards LA where we board Swiss flight LX041 to Zurich.
Scarface and her companion were back at the Riparian Preserve this week. The pair spent much of the morning chasing and playfully nipping at each other across the nearly dry settling ponds. Despite all the activity,…
Read More
At the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, water is carefully managed through a series of settling ponds - an engineered landscape that has become a refuge for wildlife over the years. Some ponds sit nearly…
Read More
Every year around this time, I start watching the ground a little more closely - and right on cue, they return. The “aliens” of the desert are back. Digger bees, often from the genus Anthophora, are…
Read More
At this time of year, a few miles from our home, several great horned owls are raising their young. It’s incredible to see how quickly these tiny, downy chicks grow - in what feels like…
Read More
Odometer: 50,094Time: 08:00Weather: mostly cloudyWe are only about 20 miles from the Petrified Forest National Park away and so it is an easy drive to get there. We take some of the suggested walking tours…
Read More
What can I say - another gorgeous day at the beach! The tide was very low, which laid some rocks free that usually are under water.
Read More
Odometer: 103,655 07:00 we slowly get up and ready to explore Sonoma and Napa Valleys. The wineries are lines up basically one after the other. The first winery we stop at 10:00 is Kenwood. We…
Read More
