Welcome to our site.  It’s mainly a place to share photos and information about things we enjoy and find valuable, like...stuff...in the universe.  We’ve found the individual stories and photos of others to be useful when planning trips or exploring our world (either via the web or in person), so we hope to be able to provide some useful information too. 

1. •California Trips - Photos, video, and information about plants, animals, geology, and other things encountered along the way
   

2. •Travel - Photos and videos from other trips outside California
   

3. •Gardening with Native Plants - Information about gardening with California native plants, focusing on our experience with specific plants and problems
   

4. •Garden Photos - Photos of the plants in our garden, in case you’re considering using any of these plants in your garden (or see them in the wild)
   

5. •Videos - videos we have, mostly on YouTube
   

6. •Climbing - photos from climbing trips (some old, some more recent)
   

7. •Resources - books, websites, stores that we’ve found useful
   

8. •About this site - Software, websites, and gadgets used to create this site and its content, including GPS, panorama stitching, and geolocation software for Mac OS X.
   

9. •Questions and comments can be left at this blog.
   

Note that on the photo pages, you can click on individual photos to enlarge them and enter slideshow mode. 

Enjoy...

PS - in case you’re wondering, those are Desert Sand Verbena growing near Ibex Dunes in Death Valley National Park--see this page for other photos from this trip).