We arrived in Yosemite the day after the first winter storm of the season came through. Snow had dusted the higher elevations and a thin coat still clung to the top of many of the Valley’s prominent geological features like… Read More »yosemite late october
So there I was, taking my early morning route to my office, admiring the red, bronze, green and yellow leaves of liquidambars in December… …when I came upon an unusual sight. Instead of the dangling seedpods that you see on… Read More »not your parents’ ornaments
Here’s a short roundup of some of the leaf colors going on in the garden. This is Southern California so it was tough coming up with the stereotypical sizzling reds and yellow and oranges of a lot of autumn gardens… Read More »those autumn leaves, so-cal edition
I first photographed these two trees over a decade ago, when I was working on a little photo project on local sycamores. I liked the way the two branches seemed to form a continuous arc when viewed from the right… Read More »early winter sycamores
After visiting the dense and somewhat frenetic new Chinese Garden at the Huntington I was feeling like I needed to unwind a bit. Fortunately a short walk at the Huntington delivers you from the Chinese Garden to the Japanese Garden.… Read More »the huntington’s japanese garden