by activelight | Feb 24, 2010 | Wildlife |
If you could work outside the cubicle, what would you really like to do? I’ve asked myself that question repeatedly. As a fresh engineering graduate in the late 1970s, my answer was playing music onstage. I wrote and performed alongside engineering jobs until...
by activelight | Jan 4, 2010 | California, Travel, Wildlife, Winter Photography |
Packed In Summer Yosemite National Park is most people’s vacation of a lifetime. All the superlatives apply to the favorite park of John Muir and Ansel Adams – vertical granite, snowy peaks, endless evergreen forests, quiet winding rivers. Most of those...
by activelight | Dec 7, 2009 | Travel, Wildlife |
We got up at 0-dark thirty for an early flight from San Jose, California to Albuquerque. After the usual wait-in-your-socks routine at the gate, we found our seats. Foggy pre-flight at San Jose / SJC At this point, there are a few options. You can try to sleep in your...
by activelight | Aug 20, 2009 | Wildlife |
It’s 5 AM, and the sun will rise out of the weeds in another five minutes. So far, I have a northern harrier on a post nearby, and some American white pelicans, sandpipers and gulls on the island 30 yards away. There’s also a snowy egret foraging in the...
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