This refuge, located just west of Ridgefield, Washington, is home to a wide variety of plants and animals.

Let’s explore around Tacoma, Mount Rainier, Sumner, Puyallup, and University Place in Washington’s Pierce County…

A great urban park with ball fields and picnic areas, plus a gorgeous little lake to sit beside and let the pressures of the workaday world evaporate…

Even on a windy day you are guaranteed a lovely spectacle…

Few things are more exciting, and yet relaxing, than driving around Mount Rainier National Park…

Visiting Narada Falls, Longmire, Paradise, Alder Lake, and more…

Actress Mackenzie Firgens and I wandered around the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California, in January 2018, laughing and having a blast...

During my 2014 Come See Turkey experience, after visiting Sümela, we traveled from Trabzon to Kars, and we stopped for a bit in the town of Uzungöl, a lovely mountain retreat in the Çaykara district that would be at home in Switzerland...

After a tough week with a very, very tough photoshoot at a hospital, I took a day off to just grab my swimming trunks and head off to some of the fabulous lakes south of Mount Hood in Oregon. By the time I arrived, a lovely morning fog had burned off and bright sunshine warmed the air. I hit Trillium Lake, Little Crater Lake, and Timothy Lake in Clackamas County, and briefly Clear Lake in Wasco County... 

Early in the morning of our second day on Mount Rainier (after the actual sunrise, but on our way to the area named Sunrise), we stopped for photos at Eunice Lake. It was a little too windy for good reflections, but still so lovely!