Black walnut and California buckeye in the riparian zone.
Roscoe befriends Sophie at Shady Rock Ranch.
Hand-dug wildlife pond. Water is still milky from the bentonite clay lining. The pond will be a summer refuge for chorus frog and Western toad eggs and tadpoles as Kelsey Creek goes dry.
Through Valley Oak boughs to Konocti.
Sweet gum or liquid amber, a native of the North American Southeast.
Kelsey Creek flowing fast from October's first big rain.
The eggs of Finca Castelero.
Virginia creeper on Mother of All Oaks with new barn owl box.
Coyote, stressed by injury and drought, stood at Hopland Grade roadside for two weeks before finally being struck down by a car. This report according to our local wildlife ranger.
One of twenty bluebird boxes at the ranch.
Looking across Big Valley and the lake from Mount Konocti - the clearest air basin in California, and sometimes the whole country. That is when the surrounding forests are not ablaze.
