Dry Reservoirs
It has been in the news for months even years, the reservoirs in the west are at historic lows due to drought. I wanted to [...]
Go Find Beauty
Once upon a time, before the COVID virus kept us sheltering in the place, we might have spent an April day visiting gardens or traveling [...]
Photographers in Alaska
On the recent Pacific Horticulture Society tour of Alaska everybody was a photographer. Hike to Caine’s Head Resurrection Bay on Kenai Peninsula, Pacific Horticulture [...]
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 [...]
Cropping A Crabapple
No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. Spring flowering ‘Liset’ crabapple [...]
Salvia wagneriana
I don’t know how many Salvias there are, but I am always finding new ones. Salvia wagneriana, winter flowering sage in San Francisco Botanical [...]
Favorite Photos 2017
Greetings, and a Happy New Year ! Saxon Holt and dog Kona at Deer Island Preserve January 2017 photo by Mary Holt Putting [...]
Grasses and Asters
One of the delightful challenges for any garden photographer is to find the photo that best illustrates the story in front of you. Aspen [...]
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 [...]
Favorite Photos 2016
It’s 2017, time to clean up all those photo files, and reminisce on favorite photos of 2016. January – Magnolia sargentiana, (Sargent’s magnolia) flowering deciduous [...]