Dipper Ranch

A rainstorm at the Mindego Gateway parking lot    There's a new kid in the neighborhood. Mindego Gateway is a new trailhead and par...

California slender salamander. Tiny but if you look, they are ubiquitous in even the smallest of damp locations. Robert Stebbins found tha...

Wolf's milk - actually not a fungus or a Hostess pastry - a fact I learned while browsing iNaturalist    The National Park Service i...

Full moon through California buckeye tree at the Dipper Ranch, February 25, 2013 Late February's full moon is the Snow Moon .  In ce...

Flowers, rocks and sea life at the edge of the continent. When the hills and valleys of the Santa Cruz Mountains get summer dry and the ...

All the rocks on the beach were framed by black halos and parentheses. Last time, I talked about the freaky poison oak shrubs at Año Nuevo ...

A male elephant seal snoozing on the beach. His chest has scratch marks from fighting with other males. Año Nuevo State Park on the beaut...