Wild Wednesday … Be Still My Bleeding Hearts!

Posted on May 27, 2015 by foresterartist

Bleeding Hearts trembling in the breeze. Be still my little hearts.

Wild Wednesday … Yellow Wood Violet

Posted on April 29, 2015 by foresterartist

Yellow Wood Violet, Viola glabella

Taken near Shingletown, California.

Our Northern California Skies

Posted on March 26, 2015 by foresterartist

Sunrise

From My Front Yard

Sunrise Over the Sacramento River

Sunrise at the Mill

Early Morning Light

Misty Morning

Snow Covered Trinity Alps

Mt Shasta

The Moon and Mt Lassen

Sunset

Sunset Palette

The Northern California skies from sunup to sundown.

Get Your Strut On, It’s Spring!!

Posted on March 20, 2015 by foresterartist

Spring, wild turkey, turkey, wildlife, photography, nature

I chance upon these handsome fellas on the way home the other night. I stopped and chatted them up a bit with my call. They obliged by talking back and showing me a strut that would make a runway model proud.

Forestry Friday … White-Headed Woodpecker

Posted on December 5, 2014 by foresterartist

The white-head woodpecker is one of our residents in the Sierra Nevada. This one was really working over these sugar pine cones. The cones had already released their seeds, so this woodpecker must have been hunting insects.

White-headed woodpecker, woodpecker, sugar pine, sugar pine cones, wildlife, nature, Sierra Nevada

Sunrise at the Sawmill

Posted on February 4, 2014 by foresterartist

This morning’s sunrise over the otter pond at the sawmill.

This morning, sunrise was quite a treat for the eyes. Even in the middle of a large industrial site you can find a moment to enjoy nature.

Lassen Peak, Mt Lassen, sawmill, sunrise

Looking east over the mill site toward Lassen Peak.

red tail hawk, red tailed hawk, log, sawmill

A red tail hawk perches on a log deck while on a morning hunt.

The big log deck forms a wall of wood.

heron, great blue heron, blue heron, wildlife, sawmill

A great blue heron gets in a bit of morning fishing.

Hey, You Aren’t Supposed Be Here!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by foresterartist

Who is the brightest of them all?

It is a new year with new pictures to take, and new art to make. I’m back at work and it is a beautiful, cool and sunny day here in Northern California. I spend part of my time at an industrial mill complex. When folks think of an industrial site they rarely think of doing wildlife photography. Although, it seems counter-intuitive, this site is a magnet for wildlife. There is water all around the site and the wild areas here, get little disturbance. This morning I took a few pictures of some of our residents. I have taken so many pictures of wildlife here at the mill that I am going to start a new catagory called Wildlife At The Mill.