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Limontour Beach is part of the Point Reyes National Seashore which is un Marin County on the Pacific coast of Northern California in the United States.

Point Reyes National Seashore is in Marin County on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. Chimney Rock sits at the south end of the Point Reyes Peninsula.

The Point Arena Lighthouse is a 154-year-old lighthouse on the coast in Mendicino County, about two miles north of the town of Point Arena.

Having a lunch of Shakshuka at the Lightwave Cafe in Monte Rio before heading to the beach in Sonoma County, California.

Calaveras Big Trees is just below Arnold on Highway 4 in Calaveras County in the California foothills of the Sierras. The Stanislaus River runs through it.

Angels Camp is a small Gold Rush town that sits along Angels Creek in Calaveras County in the California foothills of the Sierras.

Murphys is a small Gold Rush town that sits just off of Highway 4 in Calaveras County in the California foothills of the Sierras.

Sutter Creek is one of the gold mining towns along Highway 49 in the Sierra foothills of California.

Columbus Ave - Is it Chinatown? Is it North Beach? Is it part of the seedy intersection of Columbus and Broadway? It's a mix.

Vesuvio Cafe sits on the corner of Columbus and Jack Kerouac Alley (formerly Adler) on the edge of North Beach and next to Chinatwon. It was made popular by The Beat writers who frequented it. The bar is across the alley from City Lights Bookstore.

A winter's Day on Stinson Beach after winter storms. Men taking brave dips into the ocean. Stuff washed up on beach.

Some parts of the Marin Headlands are beautiful in different ways than the surrounding landscape.

Fort Ross is an historic Russian fort on Highway 1 in Sonoma County. in Northern California.

Point San Pablo Harbor is a quirky out of the way destination just north of the Richmond Bridge near Point Richmond, California.

Bodie State Historic Park is the remains of Bodie, 19th-century ghost town that was a silver and copper mining town in the eastern California desert. The entrance road off of the eastern side of Highway 395 is between Bridgeport and Mono Lake.

Bodie is a ghost town off of Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra of California. It is a California State Park. These are a few black and white images from the town.

Bodie State Historic Park is the remains of Bodie, 19th-century ghost town that was a silver and copper mining town in the eastern California desert.

Mono Lake is one of the oldest lakes in the United States. It is a saline lake that is home to a number of migrating birds, including California gulls.

Images taken at Mono Lake, October 2016. Most images were taken early in the morning as the sun was rising, or late in the evening towards sunset. Therefore some images might have strong lighting or high grain.

Mt. Shasta sits in Siskiyou County in Northern California at the base of the Cascade Range. It is revered for spiritual reasons and for its excellent hiking trails.

The Wood Tavern has excellent food and friendly atmosphere. Located at 6317 College Avenue in Oakland, California.

Images from St. Francis Fountain on 24th Street in The Mission of San Francisco.

Images from the 2019 Day of the Dead celebration in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland.

Images taken while on a walk at Goat Rock State Beach in Sonoma County, California.

ARCHIVAL: Items found in Ohmega Salvage, a salvage and architectural recycling store at 2400 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, California. The store is now closed permanently.

Deetjen's Big Sur Inn is a treasure on the Big Sur Coastline. Stay for the night, or just stop in for breakfast while you are in the area.

Sometimes the sun never comes out in Big Sur and sometimes it shines so bright.

Images from Echo Lake, at Echo Summit on the way to Lake Tahoe in the Sierras of California.

Images taken with the iPhone X while on a road trip up Highway 108 to the Sonora Pass int the Sierras of California.

"The Napa Valley Wine Train provides a relaxing three-hour, thirty-six mile round-trip journey from the historic town of Napa, through one of the world's most well known wine valleys to the quaint village of St. Helena, and back." -- from the Nappa Valley Wine Train web site.

The People's Park Mural on Haste Street in Berkeley, California. Painted by Osha Neumann and Brian Thiele. For editorial use only.