* * * Oak with Fog-filtered Sunlight It was still dark as I drove past Mountain Home Inn and began winding up through the forest ...

* * * I rolled out of bed early Saturday morning and drove all the way to Stinson Beach and out along Bolinas Lagoon to hike up the ...

* * * I took in the view out our back window one night between rain storms and enjoyed seeing stars in a clear sky. There was Orion...

* * * “It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into ...

* * * When I started up the trail into Muir Woods this morning, the forest floor was nearly dark. I figured the early hour, plus th...

* * * Northern Flicker at Nest Cavity, Tennessee Valley "You walk into a forest, you're not in quest of something. Suddenl...

* * *                In the beginning I was just like you, didn't know chanterelles from tam-o'-shanters. But once upon a t...

* * * I was poking around on the north side of the mountain most of the morning, not finding much in the way of mushrooms and not feeli...

* * * Despite getting up at 5:30 I still nearly missed the mountain sunrise. Guess I dawdled a little. Aside from just hav...

* * * I didn't stray far from the area around my camera trap this morning. Followed some deer trails and nosed around looking f...