Photos
Likely the plume of the Doe Fire on the Mendocino National Forest.
These Sourdough Dashi Scallion crepes were not stationary for long.
Unusual weather in NorCal but it is keeping daytime temps cooler than yesterday. The overnight low was about 80°. It is currently 81°. Lightning to the south and west of us (on the Mendocino NF).
The cultivated native plants likely needed some morning water for this California heatwave. It’s like a furnace vent out there.
The Annie Cat in silhouette.
Peppers among peppers. Nachos for dinner tonight. The red jalapeño and yellow wax peppers were home grown.
With the incoming heatwave in California, we will filter out direct sunlight to help keep these little avocado trees from scorching to death. Also: save the U.S. Postal Service. ✉️
West Point Light House on the Puget Sound. During a trip to visit friends Mid–2016.
SFO, August 2009: when 747s were still fairly popular for long haul transport. I’ve never flown on one 😞
Looking out at set of creepy toothy, grinning windows (dormers?) from Dom St. Petri in Bautzen, Germany. 2009.
The Annie Cat is black-and-white and loves self-scritching her mouth and cheeks (don’t all cats?)
Hummingbirds love these cultivated native California fuchsias so here’s their bird’s eye view of them.
Daytripping in mid-October can result in this view of Mount Lassen from Brokeoff Mountain. 2019.
Fissures bisect land in the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness. The massive landslide is moving to the left. Late 2019.
A quaternary lava flow at ʻĀhihi-Kīnaʻu Natural Area Reserve on Maui. Haleakalā is in the background. Late 2018. #mbaug
There was (and must still be) absolute peace in the Haleakala erosional crater. Late 2018.
A bug that we call the European honeybee, enjoying cultivated native California sage flowers. 2017. #mbaug
Jellyfish floating in an aquarium at the Birch Aquarium, La Jolla, CA in 2004. #mbaug
What used to be Up at Coyote Point just south of SFO. #mbaug
