Stairs / Playing Field, Fog

Stairs, California Buckeye - Marin County  2025

Playing Field, Fog - Marin County  2025

Morning walk photos taken with a Sony RX100. 

Spring Tree

Tree (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Tree (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Seen on the blog before, as an Autumn Tree and a Winter Tree. Now, two photos, one taken at the beginning of April and one towards the end.

Moon / Redwoods

Moon, Redwoods - Marin County  2025

Ferns, Redwoods - Marin County  2025

Top: seen on one of my morning walks. Next, ferns and redwoods taken during a hike in the San Geronimo Valley.

Monday Deer Blogging

Deer (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Fawn (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

April and May photos taken with a Sony RX100. Below, a Nikon Z7II photo taken in April at Lake Lagunitas.

Deer (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Bay Trees

Bay Tree (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Bay Leaves (Devil's Gulch) - Marin County  2025

Both photos taken with an iPhone 13 Pro Max. 

Baby from Japan

Baby from Japan (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Baby from Japan (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Baby brought back from Japan by next door Kate. At times I go over to feed her cats when she's away: I put the cat food out, but never see the cats. But that's when I see the baby.

Redwoods, Reeds

Redwoods (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Reeds, Lake (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Yes, taken in color, then converted to black and white in Photoshop. Nikon Z7II photos.

Vetch

Vetch, Oaks (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Vetch (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

"Most vetches are annual, cool-season weeds, but winter vetch and hairy vetch can also be biennial or short-lived perennials. They are regularly used as cover crops, forage for livestock, and green manure for soil management, but several species that are not native to California have escaped cultivation; and hence are now considered weeds."

Top photo taken with an iPhone 13 Pro Max, bottom one with a Sony RX100.

Fairfax Festival - 2

Booth Items Packed Up (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Print Cleaning (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Sales wise, I did all right, I think. Made back the entry fee anyway. The booth's location under the redwoods is quite picturesque, but very dusty. Cleanup takes a major effort!

Fairfax Festival - 1

Festival Booth (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Setting Up  Booth (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

First weekend in June. I drove over Friday night and dropped some of the infrastructure stuff off at the site, then brought the photos and frames over Saturday morning. Very well attended!

Festival Crowd (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Monday Cat Blogging

Cat (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Cat (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

The creature in the top photo has been seen before. Cat in bottom photo only seen once! Huh. Kind of reminded me of some exotic cats that I saw in Los Angeles.

April Blossoms

Fern, Azalea (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Dogwood Blossoms (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Photos taken during our early morning walks last April.

Buick, Subaru

Buick (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

Subaru (Fairfax) - Marin County  2025

The Buick is usually parked in a garage in the condos across the street, but had to be moved to the street due to some parking lot resurfacing.

Nice looking Subaru . . .  check out the spoiler! Reminds me a little of the Subaru I saw last year in  Bishop.

Tree in Lake, Tree Trunks (May)

Tree in Lake (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Tree Trunks (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Two May photos taken up at Lake Lagunitas using an Olympus E-M1II with a 14-150mm zoom lens.

Interesting. For some reason I don't seem to have any June Lake Lagunitas photos. 

Cat sitting, maybe.

Horsetails, Oaks

Horsetails (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Oaks (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Taken last May with a Nikon Z7II.

Iris, Lupin

Iris, Rain (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Lupin (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Photos taken on April 27th using a Nikon Z7II with a 24-200mm zoom lens.

Irises

Irises (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Irises (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Two more iris photos taken last April. Top one taken with an iPhone 13 Pro Max, bottom one with a Nikon Z7II.

Monday Pileated Woodpecker Blogging

Pileated Woodpecker (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Pounding away at the dead tree. Could have been making a nest, but the bird hasn't been seen on subsequent visits, alas.

Earlier pileated sighting was in Yosemite.

Irises - April Rain

Irises, Rain (Lake Lagunitas) - Marin County  2025

Lots of opportunities last quarter for wild irises photos. This one was taken April 17th using a iPhone 13 Pro Max. 

Midtown Terrace Plants

Flowers (Midtown Terrace) - San Francisco  2025

Agaves (Midtown Terrace) - San Francisco  2025

Taken on our last cat sitting day . . . plants enjoying the nice weather.

Twin Peaks Views

San Francisco from Twin Peaks - San Francisco  2025

Golden Gate Bridge from Twin Peaks - San Francisco  2025

Our second hike to the top, this time without any fog or wind! Some haze though. Used an iPhone for the top photo; I was able to zoom in on the Golden Gate Bridge using a Sony RX100.

Below, a photo taken after work 20 years ago with an Olympus C-8080 digital camera.

Clouds,  San Francisco from Twin Peaks - San Francisco  2005

Sutro Tower

Hali, Sutro Tower, AM Walk (Midtown Terrace) - San Francisco  2025

Sutro Tower (Twin Peaks) - San Francisco  2025

Top: view from the Midtown Terrace neighborhood; next, a view looking across from Twin Peaks.

San Francisco writer Herb Caen once wrote, "I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge." (Wikipedia)

Bottom: Walking up and around on Marview Street brings one to the base of the tower.

Sutro Tower, Dog Walking (Midtown Terrace0 - San Francisco  2025

Japantown

Utility Post Art (Japantown) - San Francisco  2025

Wall Art (Japantown) - San Francisco  2025

Our next cat sitting assignment gave us the opportunity to revisit San Francisco's Japantown. (Last visit, according to the blog, was in 2016, the year of the monkey.) 

Main purchases this time were some bento boxes at Nijiya Market.

Soju Ad (Japantown) - San Francisco  2025

Fruit Stand

Fruit Stand - Sonoma County  2025

Fruit Stand Art, Cactus - Sonoma County  2025

Taken in June . . . we noticed this fruit stand near the town of Sonoma and had to stop.