Spike!

From Carla’s front garden. Part of the Random CU Shots of Plants During Yesterday’s Rainy Dogwalk Collection.

Echium

From the Random Plants Shot During Yesterday's Rainy Dogwalk Collection.

Heather

From the Random Plant CUs Shot During Yesterday’s Rainy Dogwalk Collection.

562 West Street

A nice Trinidad dooryard

Rising Waters

Patriotic plastic livestock watch the Salt River rise over their fetlocks in Ferndale.

Eureka Back Alley

Placid

A peaceful, shiny and still morning at Arcata Marsh.

And then the fog cleared . . .

From socked-in to glorious in minutes as fog swaddles the Head.

Bright Morning

The sun peeked under the cloud layer long enough to spotlight the coast before the rain started again.

Rock Hound

Sadie

Porch Lights

What’s Up, Sadie?

Kelp Pile

Old Home Beach. Flotsam.

Clearing Skies

Morning over Trinidad Bay to Camel Rock.

Elephant Seal!

A young elephant seal — just a little guy! — hauls out for a rest on Launch Beach

 

Airstream Cats

Cats guarding a classic Airstream RV.

Christine’s Cat

Dangling Beach

Mobile Beach Glass.

Lookout

Sentinel tree.

Gull’s Wing

Stormy Day

Surf’s up on Trinidad State Beach.

Hose Co. No. 4

Eureka, California’s oldest volunteer fire department building, 1884.

Dahlia, Dahlin’

Kelpy Beach

After the storm.

One Recent Evening

Cartoon Dogs

Charlie

Bruce

Katrina

Dumpty

Dumpty

Hugo

Charlie

Katrina

Oseola

Unnamed Orphan Pups

Ace

Some kinda all right

The sweeping curve of College Cove on a bright late December afternoon.

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The view from the bluff above Trinidad State Beach never gets old: the evening panorama Dec. 30 . . .

. . . and again on Dec. 31, the last sunset of 2015. Can you see the pod of whales out there? A New Year’s Eve bonus. That’s gotta bode well for 2016.

The Good Life

Roaring Creek

After (another) big December rain, Mill Creek is ferocious crossing the beach.