A California Forest in Autumn
This is magical: Autumn magic in California; Castle Crags State Park A log to sit on and contemplate the changing season, a place [...]
Camassia Nature Preserve
God creates gardens. Camassia Nature Preserve, The Nature Conservancy, Portland Oregon Whether you consider God to be a benign Overseer, or Nature, or [...]
Oak Ghosts, Skeletons, and Recovery after the Fire
The California landscape has always been shaped by fire. Blackened hills, burned trees and new green grass; Fire damage and recovery from Nuns fire [...]
Fire Recovery Begins
The devastating Northern California firestorm that swept through Napa and Sonoma Counties in October left a scorched earth. California native landscape, recovery after 2017 [...]
Garden Design Interview – Trees
California Valley Oak trees at sunset , Quercus lobata. Garden Design Magazine featured this photo in a recent online interview: Photographer Saxon Holt [...]
Panoramas on the Prairie
There is something about prairies that makes them particularly hard to photograph. By definition they are vast and flat. There is the land; there is [...]
A Real Desert Garden
The 2017 superbloom in the California deserts was a sensation. Wildflowers on desert floor of Sonoran Desert at Anza Borrego California State Park with [...]
Tallgrass Prairie Rhizosphere
I do not know the origin, nor can explain my fascination with grasslands. Asclepias sullivantii, smooth milkweed, Sullivant’s milkweed or prairie milkweed flowering in [...]
de Anza Expedition in Anza-Borrego
On March 15, 1774 and December 24, 1775 Juan Bautista de Anza, leading expeditions from Mexico into Alta California, camped in Coyote Canyon in Anza-Borrego [...]
Dawn in the Desert
The best way to get great photos is simply to go get them. Put yourself in the right place at the right time. Clambering up [...]