Phyllis and I were lucky earlier this week to spend a few hours at Green Gulch Farm.  Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji), is a Buddhist practice center in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition offering training in Zen meditation and ordinary work, and is part of the larger San Francisco [...]

From my viewpoint on the edge of the eastern Sierra the distant mountains were invisible—hidden in a dense swirl of fog and cloud. I waited a while. For an instant I got what I was waiting for, a peak through the curtain at the Panamint Range and the distant basins and range of Death Valley. [...]

Eureka Dunes, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At the end of a remote valley in the northwest corner of Death Valley you’ll find the Eureka Dunes. At close to 700 feet tall, these are probably the tallest dunes in the United States. In the late afternoon I climbed to the top of [...]