Dipper Ranch

Coiled under the prickly leaves of a milk thistle, a small rattlesnake blends in with the brown leaves and dirt.    On May 30, I was dig...

A clear day in April on hills that often burn. View to the west from Walker Ridge, Lake County, California. It's smokey in the San F...

Smokey Bear is NOT happy with someone's habit of smoking cigarettes at the Dipper gate.

--- Lockheed Fire , August 12, 2009, as seen from the Dipper Ranch. Erica Simmons was setting up her camera to photograph the Perseid mete...