Back when my then-business job moved me from NYC to LA (more decades ago than I care to count), I came to love how easy it is to see the ‘snow line’ when you live by the ocean and have 2800 meter / 8K+-foot mountains nearby. I took this photo as our plane approached the Sierra Nevadas from the east on my ORD-SFO flight last year, from which I shared at least one past post right after the flight. These are other Sierra Nevada photos from that flight.
This was the first resting elephant seal my friend Steve & I saw as our group walked with our docent towards the main elephant-seal conglomeration, up and over a dune from where this guy was resting. All on the coast of San Mateo County.
Spectacular modern Japanese ceramic art at SF’s wonderful Asian Art Museum – which has several personal favorite spots and is a must visit, IMHO, for anyone going to SF :-).
Though we’ve plenty of coastline here in NL, I don’t tend to get over to it often…and since I so rarely get to my deeply beloved CA coastline these days, I tend to overdo the images when I do get there, so … all of these were taken on the first day of this year in northernmost Sonoma County.
For some reason we call it clouds when it’s “in the sky” but mist or fog when it’s around ground level. Whatever we call it, here you see that essential source o’ life lying low in the valley and also up high partially blocking the view of good ol’ Mt St Helena :-).
Something of a love letter to the Sonoma County landscapes that feel more like home to me than most other parts of this beautiful world where I’ve lived or visited. All from a walk in early January. Probably most easily seen in “view full site” mode, if you’re on a phone or tablet, since the gallery below carries quite a few photos.
So now we’re back to my most recent visit to Año Nuevo State Park, which we showed you in one post from January. This time I’m including the video I took in which you can, if you wish, see a pretty newborn elephant seal pup with its mom: this was calving season.
(so much world, so little time....) 