Quaking Swamps

Ephemeral Wetland and Oaks

"Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps."

— Henry David Thoreau

The Shape of a Tree

Winding Stream and Oak

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."

— Albert Schweitzer

The Evidence

Sunrise Over Pleasant Grove Pond, Study 2

"Viewing photographs may not connect the viewer to the scene, but it does show the viewer that the photographer connected with the scene. In that sense, photographs can tell us something about their maker, the person behind the camera who chose that place, that moment, that composition, that connection as being important enough to expose, produce, and preserve the evidence."

— Brooks Jensen, Kokoro

Our Most Pleasing Responsibility

Rising Sun, Frozen Creek

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope."

— Wendell Berry

Dry Creek

Dry Creek

Dry Creek is a semi-urban/suburban creek that has its source in the foothills east of Roseville, CA. It runs downstream through Miners Ravine in Roseville and out to the west side of town near Rio Linda where it joins the Sacramento River. It flows mostly unobstructed and it often breaches its banks on high water years, occasionally flooding neighborhoods in Roseville and Rio Linda (President Clinton even paid a visit to Rio Linda during the mega-floods of 1995). Besides providing habitat for a wide variety of birds and mammals (including river otters), the creek has been a spawning area for wild salmon since time immemorial. We're very fortunate to have it as a local resource. Click here to view a map.