The Birds
The Birds sit in the trees outside our house. (To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) If you ever saw the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds, you have to remember how...
View ArticleLavender Hillside
(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) Lavender Hillside at Carmel Valley Ranch The lavender is in bloom at Carmel Valley Ranch. It lines the entry to the ranch, the roads...
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(To see the most detail in this image, click on it to enlarge it!) Bees and Lavender at Carmel Valley Ranch This is a follow up image to the one I posted June 19th. I went back the next day just to...
View ArticleRescue Helicopter Lands at Carmel Valley Ranch
CLick on the first image to show a larger size and then you can navigate forward and backward using the arrows. Yesterday, I heard a helicopter circling over our home. I went out onto the upstairs...
View ArticleThe First Lavender – 2014
The first Lavender to bloom – 2014, Carmel Valley Ranch At Carmel Valley Ranch, there are fields of Lavender alongside the roads. At the top of a hill near us is a beautiful, small field of Lavender....
View ArticleHarvest Super Moon 9-8-14
This Monday night we had a Super Moon that was also a Harvest Moon. I drove down to an area of Carmel Valley Ranch that had a good view of the mountains in the more distant valley over which the moon...
View ArticleFork-Tailed Bush Katydid
Our Fuchsia plant is a tasty meal for this Fork-Tailed Bush Katydid This is an iPhone 6 photograph of this beautifully green colored Fork-Tailed Bush Katydid, Scudderia cuneata (Orthoptera:...
View ArticleAH NUTS!
The Fruit (Nut) of the Native California Buckeye Tree Ok, this post isn’t really about the poisonous nut that falls from the Native California Buckeye trees around where we live. It’s about how I...
View ArticleSunset Over Carmel Valley Ranch 7-12-15
A spectacular sunset over Carmel Valley Ranch as seen from the front deck of our home, 7-12-15 (Click on the image to enlarge it on your screen)
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