It had been 13 years since I last visited Colorado (last time to climb a couple of 14k peaks). A […]


It had been 13 years since I last visited Colorado (last time to climb a couple of 14k peaks). A […]

We started our annual trip to the Lake Tahoe area a bit earlier in 2025 to better align with wildflower […]

April 2025 Texas Wildflowers: We knew the wildflowers were not going to be as nice this year due to the […]

We completed our annual trip to Tahoe for 2024 and it was an unusual year. There had been a fair […]

Our annual trip to hike and view Sierra Nevada wildflower was impacted by the approximately 40 feet of snow that […]

One of our first hikes in the Lake Tahoe area in 2022 was north of Truckee: Sagehen Creek Trail. This […]

Karin and I missed going to Lake Tahoe in 2020, the first time we missed a year in 10+ years. […]

We made two spring trips in 2021 in search of Texas wildflowers: One in early April in Washington County and […]

We visited Lake Tahoe about 2 weeks earlier in 2019 because last year it became warmer than we cared for […]

We took a trip to the Texas Hill Country in mid April to find wildflowers and a small bit of […]