Hoping that you all can spend the holidays warm, safe and next to loved ones.

The official measurement at my weather station is 6.5 inches of snow and light snow is still lightly falling as I write this.

Written by Oakhurst dentist Dr. Adrian Buca, DDS I decided to leave Romania a long time before I knew where I wanted to go. I was still in high school, and was making plans with my best friend as to where we might go. Foolish, as every school had its informers for the secret service. Fortunately my friend was not ...

When Glacier Point Road is closed, there is only one way to get up to Glacier Point and that is to hike up the hill. We headed up the 4 Mile Trail, gaining 4,000′ of elevation. It is a tough workout but the views are well worth it. But there is more! We continued hiking 1 ½ miles further up ...

I have a weather station at my house and contribute the precipitation data to a nation wide website of weather watchers. I have always enjoyed tracking and understanding what is occurring in our local weather but the normal sources we use often fall far short for where I live and play. You can also become a weather station and track ...

Florence Street in Sebastopol, my kind of town. Just a few miles and has lots going for it, including great wetland preserve trails, the Luthor Burbank Experimental Gardens, a great park, good food, interesting old homes, and a huge farmers’ market.

If you live in the foothills like I do, you have many visitors dropping by. I have started calling this one Roberta Bobcat but I don’t have a clue whether Roberta is a he or a she. She makes her rounds through the property about once a day. She had been coming through in the afternoon but has recently modified ...

Shooting vineyards in the late afternoon makes them much more colorful than at other times of day, especially if translucent from being backlit by the setting sun. These are all vineyards within a few miles from our house. Most of the vines have faded away yellowish brown, but some, like these, are from grape varietals (cabernet sauvignon?) whose leaves turn ...

Hiking the toughest trail out of the Yosemite Valley provided an outstanding workout but also treated us to some views of snow dusted Clouds Rest and Half Dome that you can see no other way. A bonus was the Merced River reflections on the way home!

Last week, we tried to make it up to see Dana Glacier but we were stopped short of our goal by snow and ice. We waited through a week of warmer temperature, hoping to give it another try and we lucked out! We reached upper Dana Lake, full of reflections plus I got to see my first glacier!!