Mark

- Read somewhere that we are on the earth, not of it. Which would make << all >> of us immigrants. There -- problem solved. -

' Beautiful afternoon on the Sonoma Coast... '

' Wotan's Throne...

' Northwest flank of Hitchcock in the morning...

' In memory... " To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings." — Wendell Berry

' Nice little bump this morning...

' Alpenglow... courtesy of the west side of Hitchcock just after sunset...

' When was the last time you saw, not one, not two, but《 three 》 hurricanes in the eastern north Pacific ? '

' Passing 'The Miter' on a crisp late-summer morning...

' Sunrise at the foot of 'The Major General'. '

' Got to spend some time with an American Dipper... '

' The Hitchcock Loop....

' Getting close to sunset above Timberline Lake...

' A sunset in the High Sierra....

' Always nice to know that where you are walking a boulder the size of a house could decide to be somewhere lower.... "rockfall" just above Sky Blue...

We are on the countdown -- two weeks from today. 😎

' Oh right, Had almost forgotten about this. A North Atlantic Minke whale "pulse-train", in 'wavelet space', rendered for showing on the dome at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco... vimeo.com/78798330

' Sunset on top of Bald Mountain -- next up, fireworks in every direction... '

' Happy Tau Day.... Can celebrate by having << two >> pies. 🙃 www.tauday.com/tau-manifesto

' Nice conditions on the river couple days ago. '

' 《 Was 》going to give Shasta a spin -- but two days of thunderstorms put a wrench in those plans. Still, nice time to visit, spent some time with the local flora. Maybe next time. 🙃

' Seventy kilometers in, on a road with no intersections, were this tree just a couple meters taller, it would have marked the beginning of an adventure in alternate plans. '

' Sun doing that thing it does when you add a little fog.... '

' Mount Shasta, from the northwest. '

' Heading in to the Sonoma Coast State Park....

' Good example of a 'marine incursion' this morning... '

' Sherman Island looking pretty good this morning...

Nice little reminder that -- no matter how much you think you know.... what you do not know, is infinite. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Bodega just << on >> today....

' Beautiful day for the annual "headwaters-to-headwaters" hike at Sugarloaf Ridge yesterday. '

Apropos nothing, really -- 'cept it's the time of year when some birds fly north... Was trying to approach a pretty large flock of Snow geese one evening. Being as quiet as I knew how to be... Then stepped on a stick. oops. freesound.org/people/aguas...

Valley of gold....

Sunset at Eureka Dunes...

Death Valley is happening right now...

' This morning's lunar eclipse. Nice.

' Largest sunspot of the current cycle, #4366 -- taken with a consumer grade camera. With a pair of eclipse glasses can probably see it yourself!

' Nice day on the water....

: Sunrise at Dante's View, December 22nd, 2025....

Weather was just _wild_ on the eastern Sierra the other day... 40-50 knots from the left one minute... Drive down the road a couple hundred meters -- 40-50 knots from the right! Some "mini-waterspout" action on Topaz Lake, for example.

: Death Valley, 22nd of December, 2025.

Mono Lake in rare form Sunday, the 21st...

For #caturday

'' The clicks made by a White-beaked dolphin, recorded near Iceland, in "wavelet space". ''

` Bodega yesterday -- before the fog rolled in, and I ended up sailing under IFR conditions... 🙃

I can not tell you how many times the wind shows up at this place on days with a full moon.... but grateful that the pattern continues...

A fairly mild thunderstorm in the High Sierra. Best with a good sub-woofer... freesound.org/people/aguas...