A stick and a tree

I took a class from Friends of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus featuring Tree Portraiture with Laurie Wigham. I went to Donner Summit and picked one of my favorite trees to try this method out after the class.

Sonoma oak

This time of year the bay area oaks are waking up to spring. Some of the deciduous oaks have catkins dangling from the branches. This oak early in the morning glowed with catkins and lace lichen. A group of cows watched from a distance while I took photos of this tree which later turned into … More Sonoma oak