A pile of cleared logs and leaves on the Camino Alto Fire Trail indicates efforts to reduce wildfire fuel. (In a gold-faced, black-sided floater frame.)

A memory of a visit to a tobacco farm on a 2015 trip to Cuba.

Spanish tile roofs and ubiquitous palm trees run to the horizon where they meet a clear blue California sky.

On a summer evening, two palm trees are silhouetted against a brilliant orange sky with Mt. Tam in the distance.

This painting of a weed sprouting from cracks in a concrete wall reminds us that once man removes himself, nature reclaims its territory.

A friend of my husband photographed this scene.  I enjoyed playing with the different color temperatures of the snow on the hillside and barn roofs.

The mutt shows off her muddy feet after a romp at low tide.