Dipper Ranch

A sapsucker stretches after its winter arrival at the Dipper Ranch orchard. This one looks like a cross between the red-naped sapsucker ...

Wet, cold and dark induce dreamy illusions as a storm envelopes Long Ridge. Denning - a personal definition - reluctance to leave the la...

Valley oaks on the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve greet storm clouds blowing down the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains . Storms t...

First rain Sunday night. September and maybe October will still have hot, dry days of Indian summer , at least our western version where t...

Please note: my niece who is visiting me in California this July is not allowed to read this blog post. She says she will not visit the Di...

I took some friends for a walk on the Dipper Ranch on the day after Christmas. As we headed back to the ranch house for a spaghetti dinner,...