I gave the little girls next door some driveway chalk. They gave me a flower on my fence. I hope it never rains on this spot!

Another from fall 2018 of Millerton Lake looking back from the Friant Dam.

I got this in fall 2018 up at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Merced rivers. The sticks are a pretty lame “fish barrier” to keep salmon from coming up river and getting stuck. It works poorly at best. But it does give birds like this egret a place to hang out and wait for smaller fish to come through the opening so he can snatch them up.

In February 2020, I went up to the Kings River where they have a program to raise trout and then get the public to help in releasing them. They knew I was coming so they got some cute kids to help out, which was fun. But most of volunteer fry “handlers” were strange old codgers who A: Didn’t want me to interview them and B: Didn’t want their photos taken and C: Scurried off with their fry buckets to salt their “secret” fishing spots on the river and did NOT want me following them. Fisher people are a weird bunch.

This guy was sunning himself as I rode by on my bike. I stopped to take a photo and then an old guy stopped, all excited, saying the group he bikes with always competes to see who can get a photo of the “first spring snake.” So I got a shot of him getting a shot of the snake. But, really, I was the first one!

April 2020, I busted quarantine to get shots after a storm.

I like taking pictures of hearts I find in random places.