Mustangs

 

Mustang - Marin County  2021

Mustang with Shelby Side Pipes - Marin County  2021

Mustangs parked in our neighborhood. Pretty exotic . . . after the first sighting they disappear.

iPhone Black and White

 

Oaks, Fog - Marin County  2021

Fennel, Dead Tree - Marin County  2021

Taken during my morning walks, converted to black and white in Photoshop.

Fenceposts

 

Fenceposts (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Fenceposts, Trees (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

More in the "Fenceposts" series.

Poison Oak

 

Lichen, Poison Oak (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Poison Oak in Tree (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2021

Hiking the Roy's Redwoods loop trail with an Olympus E-M1II.

Smoke

 

Sun, Fire Road, Smoke - Marin County  2021

Mount Tamalpais, Smoke - Marin County  2021

Here's my seasonal smoke post, a regular feature on the mikereport. The smoke in our area is not coming from either the Dixie Fire or the Caldor Fire, but rather from the "River Complex" fires.

Regarding the current fire situation, I'd like to quote from my June 16, 2017 "Dead Trees" post:

"Most of the trees have lost some, or all, of their needles. This is making the problem less conspicuous as they are starting to resemble the snags left after a fire. Certainly they are going to provide fuel for future forest fires."

Monday Horse Blogging

Tuffy (San Geronimo Valley) - Marin County  2013

Tuffy, waiting to be fed. Hanna was able eventually to help with his feed bucket. 

As a point of interest, he needed to be given horse wormers on a regular basis . . . Hali rotated through various medications, including Ivermectin. Alas, I guess that we don't have any old tubes laying around though. 

Tuffy hated the stuff, by the way.

Hanna Preparing Tuffy's Feed - Marin County  2015

Trestle Bridge

 

Sunset, Trestle Bridge (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Trestle Bridge (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Photos taken looking out of our motel window. Wow! The bridge was originally built for the railroad, now it's for pedestrians. The web has more information about the bridge than you might want.

Flags

 

Flag, Moon (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Flag, Building (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Interesting. These are my second and third flag photos taken on the trip. (First one in the town of Mendocino.) 

Interesting.

California Western - 2

 

Tracks, Water Tower (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Railroad Mural (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino  County  2021

The mural is quite faded; I gave it a little boost in Photoshop.

California Western - 1

 

California Western RR Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Art, Railroad Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

"Gas-powered, self-propelled, passenger railcars were added in 1925; and, after Pullman service was discontinued, CWR steam passenger trains ran only when the motorcars were out of service for maintenance. The passenger coaches were scrapped in 1949. The motorcars were nicknamed "Skunks" because people said, "You can smell 'em before you can see 'em."

I remember taking the train to its midpoint some years ago. It's my understanding that it no longer makes a regular run over to Willits.

But, they're still working on the tracks! Below, a little maintenance car we had to stop for on the way out of town. 

Utility Car (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Noyo Harbor Mural

 

Mural, Noyo Harbor (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

I had to leave our restaurant and walk back for this photo. The sun was starting to get kind of low: I was worried that the glare might wipe out the sky. But no! . . . the Canon came through.

Noyo Harbor

Ice (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Noyo Fishing Center (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Two ice machines! 

Photos taken with a Canon G5XII camera, then converted to black and white using Photoshop.

Monday Gull Blogging

 

Gull, Coast Guard (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Down at the Noyo Harbor. A Canon G5XII photo.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 3

 

Dahlia (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Foxglove (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Photos taken with a Nikon Z5 and 24-200mm zoom lens.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 2

 

Ocean (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Cypresses, Ocean (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

The Botanical Garden starts at Highway 1 and goes to the ocean. The sea seemed a bit rough that day, but perhaps it's always like that.

Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden - 1

 

Flowers, Driftwood (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Nasturtiums (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

We made a morning excursion to the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden. You enter just off the main street (Highway 1). We'd never been there before . . . luckily we had known to get advance tickets.

Fort Bragg Black and White

 

Mendocino Coast (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Family (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Photos taken outside a fabric store with a quite extensive inventory. iPhone pix.

Giant Burger

 

Giant Burger (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

We got burgers and fries to go, then drove back to the motel's picnic table and ate outside. Burgers were OK, but fries weren't crispy, alas.

Cypress Trees

 

Cypress Trees (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Across from our motel and Highway 1.

Monday Seal Blogging

 

Seal, Processing Salmon (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

We were having an outside dinner in the Noyo Harbor district when we noticed some of our fellow diners peering excitedly at a recently arrived boat. Freshly caught salmon was being processed, and some of the scraps were being tossed into the water, where a large seal was waiting. Hard to concentrate on your fish tacos when there was so much action going on.

Salmon Processing (Fort Bragg) - Mendocino County  2021

Mendocino - 5

 

Flag, Statue (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

Fire Department (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

After a few extra photos, we walked back to our car and headed north on California's famous Highway 1.

Mendocino 4 - Masonic Statue

 

Old Masonic Building (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

"Time and the Maiden" Statue (Mendocino) - Mendocino  County  2021

Interesting art work. There's an informative explainer online, if one is interested.

By the way, the statue was also photographed by Ansel Adams (below). He was able to get a more head-on view.

A. Adams, 1964

Mendocino - 3

 

Wild Roses (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

Rose (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

Mendocino was featured in a New York Times story recently concerning California's current drought (paywall, alas.) Future water supply is sure to be drastically restricted . . . wonder what will happen to all those flowers.

Mendocino - 2

Flowers, Wood Wall (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

Hydrangeas (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

I was lugging around the Nikon Z5 with a 24-200mm zoom lens, which combination veteran Nikon users somehow think is small and lightweight, but isn't.

Mendocino - 1

 

Fence, Water Tower (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

Nasturtiums, Water Tower (Mendocino) - Mendocino County  2021

We stopped for a bit and walked through the small touristy town of Mendocino. Foggy with flowers: last year I compared Murren, Switzerland, to Mendocino.

North Coast

 

Driftwood, Ocean - Mendocino County  2021

Driftwood, Vetch - Mendocino County  2021

We paid a quick visit to Mendocino  County in July, staying for two nights at the Best Western in Fort Bragg.