Category Archives: Just Photos

Dogwood – I’ve never seen it before we headed to northern Ca

 

As we drive through forests and meadows here in northern CA and southern OR in spring, one type of tree we see often is a dogwood.  In some places they line the roads and are all in bloom.

They are really pretty trees and the white flowers contrast so nicely with the shades of green of the other trees.

We see these trees at altitudes of between 3000 and 4500 feet up, and they only bloom if they are in the sunlight.

We also took close-up shots of another little wildflower and a manzanita in bloom:

A caterpillar and a butterfly – both at Shasta Dam

While on a tour of Shasta Dam we saw a couple of beautiful butterflies, and later saw a caterpillar.

Taking great photos with our new camera

Jeff recently bought a new camera and is having fun taking photos with it.  We decided we needed a new one while at Yosemite for the Moonlight Tour – our camera at the time had no way to adjust the shutter speed and none of the pictures came out.

Now Jeff has a really nice Nikon!

This new category of posts will include photos that Jeff takes just for the artistic nature of the subject.

Here are some to start off: