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Continue reading →: Whitewater Draw
Whitewater Draw is a large marshland obtained by the Arizona Game & Fish Department (AZGFD) from previous ranch land to manage as a natural habitat for the many birds and animals that frequent the area. The AZGFD has re-seeded the native grassland to restore and conserve the environment, by flooding…
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Continue reading →: Price Sculpture Forest
Whidbey Island along the Puget Sound, north of Seattle, WA is along rugged terrain, surrounded by water. In Coupeville, one of the oldest towns in the State of Washington in Ebey’s Landing Natural Historic Reserve, one can find Fort Casey Historical State Park with historic military batteries and a lighthouse…
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Continue reading →: Morro Bay
California’s coastline is full of gorgeous scenic views as the ocean comes up to meet a mountainous, rocky, sometimes forested landscape. One of the places we like to frequent along the Central Coast is Morro Bay. Morro Bay’s distinguishing landmark is Morro Rock, as it juts out from the seabed…
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Continue reading →: Best of Grizzlies
I took my fair share of photographs on our recent trip to Canada. The hardest part is picking my favorites. You can see my posts here… https://kritterspaw.com/2024/10/20/grizzlies/ and https://kritterspix.com/2024/10/20/always-learning/ I wanted to choose a variety of different techniques and grizzly behaivor in my Best of: Demonstrating ACTION BEARSCAPE ATMOSPHERE and…
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Continue reading →: Grizzlies
We just returned from an amazing adventure north of Vancouver, where we spent a week among grizzly bears. It was great fun to observe their behaviors and personalities. We saw WALKING BEARS WADING BEARS BOBBING BEARS BABY BEARS even DANCING BEARS and BEACHED BEAR and FISHING BEARS The Chinook salmon…
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Continue reading →: Saddle Mountain Wilderness
We enjoy the Grand Canyon- North Rim. In particular we love the Rainbow Trail and it’s many gorgeous viewpoints and vistas. Sublime Point and Toroweap are other personal favorites, but are along long, rough dirt roads, and require reservations & permits in advance. We enjoy the secluded dispersed camping, which…
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Continue reading →: Lush Green
We are always thrilled to see any animals. Our Arizona monsoon season has brought some rain making the grass grow lush green and weeds stretch for the sky. What do they say, ‘sometimes it’s hard to see the forest through the trees’? In this case you can barely see the…
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Continue reading →: Osprey
It’s funny. I’ve become an advocate for cloudy skies as they yield great sunrises and sunsets, rather than the blue blue skies I used to covet. (See my recent post here… https://kritterspix.com/2024/07/03/whitehorse-lake/ ). We recently scheduled a trip on a pre-defined time we put on our calendar. The date came,…
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Continue reading →: Nastursiums
You may have heard of nastursiums. I just love this plant, as it’s not only colorful and beautiful to look at, both the leaves and flowers are edible. It adds great color and taste to salads and dishes that we really enjoy. I couldn’t say how many seeds we have…
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Continue reading →: Front Gate
It’s not like we go out looking for projects. I swear they just come to us. We have a chain we put across our driveway when we are off the mountain, but as we have aged I think it has gotten heavier. So we decided we should replace it with…
