Acorn woodpeckers sit on grainery tree in a smokey haze created by the Sonoma and Big Sur fires.

Juvenile Golden Eagle takes advantage of the puddle left by the irrigation at Hesley Lake.

Swimming buoy and line are high and dry at Hensley Lake. The temperature is 115 degrees.

Tuolome Meadows, Yosemite, CA

Tuolome meadows

Our Sportsmobile is our home away from home. We live in the van while we are on the road, either participating in art fairs or on photo shoots. We camp on location and the catch the light as the sunrises and sets. We traveled up a bolder strewn dirt road and through some snow drifts to reach this location.

The sun rises and truly turns the mountain copper. See a map and notes...

Kavanaugh Ridge, South Sierras, CA

Yosemite, California

Yosemite Valley

South Sierras, CA

South Sierras, CA

Coffee Pot Road, Colorado

Coffee Pot Road, Colorado

Coffee Pot Road, Glen Canyon, CO

Glen Canyon

There are more than 1 million acres of dead lodgepole pines in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The pine beatles are carrying a fungus that kills the trees. Due to the warm winters, the pine beatles have not been killed by the sub-zero temperatures which have been normal for a Colorado winter. Read more...
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The Aspens are taking over the forrest where the lodgepole pines have died and are predicted to replace entire forrests in the Rocky Mountains. See a map and field notes...

Beautiful wildflowers bloom in mid-July. See a map and field notes...

Stillwater Pass, Colorado. See a map and field notes...

Stillwater Pass, CO

Colorado

Corona Pass

Colorado

Moose in the willows, Brighton, Utah

Utah

Heat and brine shrimp midges over the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Dawn, Mount Rose, California

Lupin, Mount Rose, California