Every November Christina Lopp and I teach a watercolor journaling class at Asilomar. It is a lovely place on the Monterey peninsula. This ye...

Otter 501 is a feature film soon to be released. Sea Studios, the organization creating the film, believes the film will draw a lot of atten...

by Gay Kraeger Every August our neighborhood goes camping in the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Years ago a friend of min...

In June I took my daughters and great niece to the ribbon cutting of some of my interpretive panels at Big Basin. It is always fun to see th...

Christina Lopp and I teach a class in keeping an illustrated journal every year at Asilomar near Monterey California. It is a beautiful plac...

Work has been very intense lately. Most of my time is spent in front of the computer. So when my sister invited my husband and I to go on a ...

Every summer my neighborhood goes camping at a small lake in the Sierra Nevada. We take all the dogs, kids and grandkids. The kids are growi...

My current project at work are some informational panels on the dunes at Asilomar State Park in central California. Whenever I start a new p...

The Channel Islands off California's coast are called California's Galapagos Islands. There are species there that have evolved diff...

We know the mail doesn't get delivered on Sunday, but we have had some grey days when we are used to sunny skies, so my husband and I de...

I grew up next to a redwood forest. I am very lucky to still live on the edge of that same forest in the Santa Cruz Mountains along Californ...

Thanks for the invitation to participate. I am very excited to be a part of this blog. This page in my journal happened because I was too ne...