A magical time of year is coming in February- a chance to see a natural #firefall at #horsetailfall in @YosemiteNPS Last year was the most amazing one I have ever witnessed-this video captured the wind moving the water in a spectacular show. #yosemite #yosemitefirefall

“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood

Awesome photos from this week’s Tuolumne Meadows Winter Ranger blog. https://t.co/diu83ImqB3

“Over 90 marine mammals make their home along California coast. Over 500 fish, untold sea life, remarkable ecosystems, including our giant kelp ecosystem, (are) at risk,” California’s Natural Resources Secretary @WadeCrowfoot said during Tuesday’s conference.

For us in California, connectivity is not a subplot. It is an essential part of 30x30.” @Meghan_Hertel Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat, California Natural Resources Agency at California Missing Linkages 25th Anniversary Symposium

“We need hope. And nothing is more inspiring than watching nature come back when you give it half a chance.” California Secretary of Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot at the California Missing Linkages 25th Anniversary Symposium.

“Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down Should have been gone long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know?” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Linger for a moment on... • John O'Donohue •

Look at all that lovely snow in the Yosemite high country this morning! Via Yosemite Conservancy webcams

An ode to the lilac-breasted roller On my visits to Africa, I fell in love with this flying rainbow of a bird with wings borrowing their color from the sky. The lilac-breasted roller is Kenya's national bird, and they are called Kambu’ in Swahili. What's also wonderful about the

“The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.” Ray Bradbury

“Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story…The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”

Bobcats in a hurry.

The senior members of the Sunshine Hill Pack are marking some big birthdays this year. Jeremy is 14 years old! For an 80lb dog, this is a long life for sure. He came from a puppy hoarding situation in San Bernardino and was rescued by Hope n' Heroes. He joined us in 2012 right

I just finished logging my sightings in @inaturalist for 2025-9,925 sightings of 761 species. And now a lifetime total of 36,840 observations for science!

The mule deer - velociraptor affair continues. #loveislove

Happy newt year! Your photos of newts needed to help me with my newt study. The newts are back in town! The first newt showed up today in one of the small ponds I monitor. I am trying to learn more about our region’s newt population and you can help if you live in Mariposa

Tonight’s sunset in the Sierra foothills.

“Time after time it was the “nice” people, the ones who compulsively put other’s expectations and needs ahead of their own and who repressed their so-called negative emotions, who showed up with chronic illness in my family practice, or who came under my care at the hospital

I LOVE MY NEW PIKA SHIRT! You can have one, too! Be sure to shop at The Approach Trading Post in Mariposa. Support local business.