Around Lake Mono

Sunset at south Lake Mono... the many, many tufas!

Whole Earth Festival Davis 2009

Stalls around and about

Festival de la Familia

Another Jaunt to Tahoe

So my last Tahoe post did not have any white stuff so here's some for good measure...

A Day in Benicia

My attempt to reproduce the default Windows wallpaper





A walk through the State Recreation Area

When rain does not fall

Nice bridge? What's so special about it? This is usually underwater...

Bet you can figure out where the water level usually is...

More organs...

Hearty Valentine's

Beef heart slice, chicken hearts and brain cheese...

Beef heart curry


Ingredients for chicken heart stir-fry

Cooking hearts

Voila! Final spread

Feather Falls or the 10-mile Death March

No, this is not the actual falls, just some falling water on the way in.



Finally, Feather Falls which is a really tall waterfall.


Scary Face


River that I think feeds the falls



See the falling water! Not very feathery...



It's a death march because of all the uphill bits...
7.0 miles of downhill hiking and only 2.0 miles of uphill hiking on the return or so it says on a website. The really steep last 2.0 miles ...

Monterey Aquarium