Category: The California Swing

I’ve spent a lot of wonder-filled time in the landscapes of the central Sierra Nevada.

I grew up near the place where the waters of the San Joaquin River emerge

I lived the first 25 years of my life in the San Joaquin Valley of

In May of 2021 I visited the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge near Modesto,

The Sacramento is a “beast” of a river. It runs 400 miles from Mount Shasta to

California’s landscape is big and diverse.  When I moved to the East Coast in 1988,