A day at the lake

My girl catches fish...

...and I do okay too.

All fish caught on this particular day were on flies tied by yours truly: an orange-floss fox-squirrel streamer, a green-floss Serama beadhead soft-hackle, and a red peacock nymph. Each fly accounted for both bluegills and rainbows.

Red-sided garter snake

Okay, so it took a while...

Back in the first year of this blog, I posted some photos of a plains garter snake from the garden...and promised to follow up with red-sided garter snake pictures. I didn't expect it to be ten years before I had both snake and camera at the same time and place, but so it was. These were taken while fishing with Jessa and Ellie at Fremont Lakes last week; as I hinted last time, I only ever see red-sideds near water.

Meet Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis.

More of land and sea

This, our final post from the Cinque Terre, is a collection of leftover photos a celebration of land and sea. Thanks for joining us here on the Ligurian coast. We'll be back to our regular programming shortly.

Oh, and thanks as well to our boat captain, Alessandro, as well as first mate Samuel, for hospitality, valuable information, and making so many of our recent photos possible. When I say they gave us perspective on the Cinque Terre, I mean that both literally and figuratively.

And thanks, as always, to Jessa, my partner in travel, photography, and everything else. È stato davvero un buon viaggio.

Cinque Terre street scenes

Much of the Cinque Terre's charm is in the narrow streets, piazzas, back alleys, and gardens of its villages. So, without further comment or annotation: