 Canyon View Trail |
 Canyon View Trail |
 Fence Lizard |
 New California poppies |
 Fire Interpretive Trail |
 Sierra Azul |
 Fluffy whatchamathings |
 Spring Thistle |
 Checkerspot |
 Inspiration Point |
 Peacock |
 Maguire Peak - View from the East |
 A perfect place for lunch |
 Obstacle on the Sequoia Trail |
 Sempervirens Falls |
 Little Yosemite |
 Contour Trail - Upper Falls |
 If I don't move, no one will see me |
 Vulture patrolling the canyon |
 Hetch Hetchy Trail |
 Stay on the trail |
 Mature Poison Oak |
 Towhee Trail |
 Tree on the North Rim |
 Honker Bay at Columbine |
 Vulture circling overhead |
 Fog over North Rim |
 You can run, but you cannot hide |
 Fog over Hwy 1 |
 At the clouds' level |
 False trail |
 Fog over the Pacific coast |
 Hwy 1 |
 Above Highway 1 |
 Nacimiento Road |
 Ventana climb |
 Lava Trail |
 Twin Rocks |
 Pacific coast before sunset |
 Chimney Tree |
 Spiky Whatchamathingy |
 Manzanita growing from rock |
 Shooting the fog |
 Step into the clouds |
 Old walkway to mineral springs |
 Stevens Creek Reservoir |
 Deck Your Halls With Boughs of Holly |
 Young, beautiful, and poisonous |
 You are being watched |
 Mating Checkerspots |
 Cabbage White |
 Buckeye |
 The patriarchs |
 Bumble Bee |
 Banana slug |
 SJPD on a bike climb exercise |
 Deer in a tall grass |
 Summer Thistle |
 Common Kingsnake |
 Toward the peak |
 Peakaboo |
 Summer siesta |
 Two bucks |
 Young buck up close |
 Eagle Rock in winter mist |
 Spring leaves |
 Evening over San Jose |
 Storm over Eagle Rock |
 Bobcat in a chase |
 Wild boars |
 Can I be in this picture, too? |
 Approach to Flag Hill |
 Inside a burnt-out sequoia |
 Castle Rock caves |
 View from Ridge Trail |
 View from Ridge Trail |
 Flag Hill |
 Pacifica from Baquiano trail |
 Exhausted from heat |
 Frog Lake |
 Spider web in a cloud |
 Manzanita |
 Tarantula climbing up my arm |
 Picnic with a view |
 Creek Trail |
 Climber on Goat Rock |
 Buzzard's Roost |
 View from Vista Grande onto Flag Hill |
 Resting |
 Rattlesnake appearing from under a cover of dry leaves |
 Sagebrush Lizard |
 Look around - mountain lion was here |
 Red-tailed Hawk |
 Horsewalking |
 Sunol |
 Angry baby rattlesnake |
 Slopes of Boccardo |
 Morning Glory |
 Farewell-to-spring |
 Observation point |
 Sequoia fairy ring |
 Enter the darkness |
 Blonde as the golden grain |
 View East from Black Mountain |
 Trail from Antler Point |
 Canada De La Pala Trail |
 Wild boars |
 Trail from Flag Hill |
 Flag Hill |
 Mr. Tarantula |
 Southern Alligator Lizard |
 Golden Eagle |
 End of Ridge Trail |
 Mission Peak |
 Coyote on Mission Peak to Monument Peak Trail |
 Black Mountain |
 Storm coming from the East |
 Flag Hill Trail |
 Looking over Sunol Wilderness |
 Tarantula Silk |
 McCorkle Trail |
 McCorkle Trail |
 Bench in flowers |
 Gopher Snake |
 Shaded rest spot |
 Dry tree |
 North East from Maguire Peaks |
 Geocachers |
 On top |
 From Peak Meadow Trail |
 Setting anchors |
 Don't *#&% with the hawks |
 Ridge Trail from Mission Peak |
 Encounters on the trail |
 Good bye to summer |
 Taking a break |
 Emerging from clouds |
 Above the clouds |
 Target ahead |
 Mission Peak |
 Northern approach |
 Look back on Mission Peak |
 View from Monument Peak |
 By the creek |
 Path through sequoia forest |
 Sunny side of the hill |
 View on the Pacific |
 Saratoga Gap Trail |
 Saratoga Gap Trail |
 Saratoga Gap Trail |
 Saratoga Gap Trail |
 Saratoga Gap Trail |
 Vista Grande Trail |
 Vista Grande Trail |
 Vista Grande Trail |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Pinnacles National Monument |
 Joseph Grant Park |
 Joseph Grant Park |
 Joseph Grant Park |
 Joseph Grant Park |
 Bird watchers |
 McCorkle trail |
 Near Mount Hamilton |
 Snowman on Halls Valley Trail |
 Canada de Pala in snow |
 First wild poppies of the spring |
 It's crowded at the top |
 Poppy slopes |
 View down McCorkle |
 Wildflowers by Agua Caliente |
 David, Antony, and Carl |
 Straight to Mission Peak |
 Sierra Trail |
 South side of Joseph Grant |
 Sweeney Ridge view east |
 Baquiano Trail view on Pacifica |
 Looking down on heat-scorched Sunol Wilderness |
 Mount Umunhum |
 Walk before sunset |
 Ania |
 Moon over Alum Rock Park |
 Hawk |
 Vulture tree |
 Three bulls |
 South Rim trail |
 Clarkia rubicunda |
 Dry summer thistle |
 Old oak at dusk |
 Piss off |
 One leg at a time |
 Winter at Joseph Grant Park |
 Buzzard's Roost |
 Giant sequoias on Pine Mountain Trail |
 Look who's watching |
 Where I go, you cannot follow |
 Sunol Wilderness |
 Wawona |
 Wawona |
 Wawona |
 Wawona |
 Berry Creek Falls |
 Berry Creek Falls |
 Berry Creek Falls |
 Ania at Berry Creek Falls |
 Steep Ravine Trail |
 Steep Ravine Trail |
 Bridge on Steep Ravine Trail |
 Moss tree on Dipsea Trail |
 Good bye, summer |
 Pomponio Canyon Trail |
 Pomponio Canyon Trail |
 Pomponio Canyon Trail |
 Giant redwood |
 Pescadero Marsh |
 Pescadero Marsh |
 Pescadero State Beach |
 Shark Fin Cove |
 Break in the storm |
 Greyhound Rock State Park |
 Photographing birds |
 Picnic on a cliff |
 Backdoor to the East |
 Flowering Buckeye |
 Devil's Slide |
 Devil's Slide |
 Devil's Slide |
 Joseph Grant Park |
 Flag Hill |
 Alum Rock Park |
 Vulture gliding in the morning sun |
 Pampas Grass |
 Pelicans |
 North of Greyhound Rock |
 Bean Hollow Beach |
 Two picnics |
 Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve |
 Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve |
 Shell imprint in rocks above Silicon Valley |
 South West from Sierra Vista Trail |
 South East from Sierra Vista Trail |
 Mountain oasis |
 Lone hiker at sunset |
 Fossil hunting |
 Deep shell imprint in the rock |
 Stateroom seating |
 Last burst of light before sunset |
 Golden hour |
 Severed path |
 Hiking before storm |
 November Pacific |
 Stairs up |
 Two on a hill |
 Trail by a tree |
 Watching the waves from a cliff |
 Forward view through the shell of a dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) |
 Fossil ridge |
 Sierra Vista Trail |
 Kestrel Trail |
 Red Pond |
 Light over rocks |
 Watching another world passing by |
 Chillin' |
 Boccardo during a break in spring rains |
 Oak on Sierra Vista Loop Trail |
 Starburst Anemone (Anthopleura sola) in a tide pool |
 Sunset after storm |
 Kestrel Trail after storm |
 View across Alum Rock Canyon after storm |
 At the trailhead -- waiting for gusty rain to stop |
 First poppies |
 Eagle Rock |
 Eagle Rock, South side |
 Bird vetch |
 Clematis lasiantha, full vine |
 Clematis lasiantha, detail |
 Don't touch — Calystegia sepium shrouded by poison oak |
 Fawn learning to jump |
 Flowering mustard |
 First line of defense |
 Echium candicans, detail |
 Hiker in yellow |
 Passing rain over blooming slopes of Boccardo |
 Triteleia laxa |
 Eriophyllum staechadifolium |
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 Thistle flower releasing seeds surrounded by thistledown |
 Balsamroot on Eagle Rock trail |
 Equine encounter |
 Bonhoff Trail |
 View on Lick Observatory from Bonhoff Trail |
 Heatwave over Silicon Valley |
 Mid-morning haze during June heatwave |
 Torch lily |
 Trails closed due to fire damage |
 Burnt slopes — trees survived, smaller bushes and grasses perished |
 Burnt slopes — detail |
 Mountain lion advisory |
 Sambucus cerulea (Blue elderberry) |
 Across the canyon |
 Poison oak turning red from sun |
 South Rim switchbacks after repairs from slides |
 Penitencia Creek still holding water after winter rains |
 Amaryllis belladonna (Jersey lily) |
 Smoke haze over Silicon Valley |
 Hikers by Sierra Vista Trail |
 Claremont Formation |
 View from South Rim |
 Cliff base |
 Line of waves hitting the cliff during high tide |
 Flag Hill from Indian Joe Trail |
 McCorkle Trail |
 McCorkle Trail |
 Cerro Este Trail from McCorkleTrail |
 McCorkle Trail descending into the valley |
 Acorn woodpecker granary tree |
 Cave Rocks |
 Calaveras Reservoir from Eagle View |
 Lone poppy on Vista Grande |
 Flag Hill from Vista Grande |
 Maguire Peaks |
 Cattle Gate |
 Control Your Pee — Los Huecos Trail |
 Lick Observatory from Canada de Pala |
 Canada de Pala |
 Grant Lake from Halls Valley Trail |
 Young Sikhs on Eagle Rock |
 Killdeer nest — detail |
 Killdeer nest — full view |
 Baby Poison Oak |
 Nest in a cliff |
 Los Huecos Trail |
 Granary Oak |
 Yellow poppy |
 California poppy |
 Trail crossing |
 Cave in a cliff |
 Millions of years ago |
 Mollusc fossil from an ancient sea now 1800 feet above Silicon Valley |
 Fully preserved petrified mollusc |
 Shell imprint on Sierra Vista |
 Echoes of ancient past under our feet |
 Trail to Boccardo on a summer day |
 Echo of a prehistoric oyster |
 Ancient sea creature sleeping in the rocks |
 Over Boccardo |
 Evening on Aquila Loop |
 Toward Mount Diablo |
 Summer grass |
 Where sun always shines |
 Rain over Mount Hamilton |
 Spring in full bloom |
 One vulture apart |
 Sea life frozen in time |
 Aquila loop in high noon |
 Ancient shell |
 Blazing Star |
 Poppy cones |
 After the rain |
 Agrocybe |
 Long cloud |
 Poppies on Upper Calaveras Fault trail |
 Ancient molusk |
 Poppy at peak |
 Masked hiker during Corona |
 Lizard |
 Ice plant |
 Connector Trail |
 Summer |
 Hawk posing for photo |
 After the rain |
 Bush sunflower surrounded by wild hyacinths |
 Trail gate |
 Fontana Grasshopper |
 Fox carrying prey |
 Dandelion |
 Blazing star surrounded by poison oak |
 Bumblebee |
 Lizard |
 Little spider |
 Trimming the trail |
 Flowering Poison Oak |
 Eryngium |
 Flowering sagebrush |
 Oversized load |
 Alameda Creek |
 Long view toward Calaveras Lake from Flag Hill |
 Brown Mantis |
 Battle lines |
 Tarantula's view |
 Golden Eagle |
 Distant snow |
 Piglets at the entrance to Joseph Grant park |