Ruth Bancroft’s Legacy
Early morning in Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, California When I first met Ruth Bancroft in 1992, she was already 86. Ruth Bancroft [...]
Pond Views – Western Hills
How to find a photo within a photo in landscape garden photography
Autumn – Denver Botanic Garden
The Denver Botanic Garden gets better every time I visit. There are new buildings, like the Science Pyramid pictured above, at the end of a [...]
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is one of the premier public gardens of native plants in the country, with a collection of California native plants in [...]
Fall Color – San Francisco Botanical Garden
It’s true, there is autumn foliage in San Francisco. Just go to Golden Gate Park and take a walk in the Botanical Garden. Panorama [...]
Shadows at Cornerstone
I had a play day today at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma. Sunset Demonstration garden - Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma But the light was bright [...]
Looking Up – Arnold Arboretum
A mature tree is an awesome thing, clasped to the earth, connected to the sky, drinking in light, breathing out oxygen, sheltering the land, nurturing [...]
Sacramento Cemetery Roses
I found an old friend in Sacramento’s Old City Cemetery this spring. I visited the cemetery to help the local Rose Society preserve the historic rose collection found [...]
Dawn’s Early Light
Light is certainly critical in all photography. For garden photography the magic hours tend to be the two first hours and the two last hours [...]
Disturbance at The Sea Ranch
The Sea Ranch is legendary in the history of California Coastal development. In the early 1960’s, ten miles of the Sonoma Coast was designated for development, in [...]