A celebratory nighttime bonfire makes good use of bamboo cleared during the day by farming cooperative volunteers. Near Charlestown, WV.
A flower blossoms before a towering red ocotillo near Borrego Springs, CA. March 2019.
Near Ocotillo Wells National Recreation Area. March 2019.
The Adirondacks. October 2018.
A San Francisco–made Sarod played for tips in a Saturday farmer’s market. Santa Barbara, CA.
My home.
Captured from binoculars, the tail end of the August 2017 total solar eclipse event. Wallowa Whitman National Forest, OR.
Facing Austin, OR, at breakfast time from a mountainside. Wallowa Whitman National Forest, OR. August 2017.
Wallowa Whitman National Forest, OR. August 2017.
A view of the Salinas Valley foregrounded by a wilting pennyroyal. Toro Regional Park, Salinas, CA.
A small street slopes down to reveal the ocean on the summer solstice of 2019. Pacific Grove, CA.
An uncommon sunbow swoops upward in the background of dried pennyroyals at Fort Ord National Monument in Toro, CA. June 25, 2019.
A nopal cactus blossoms in the hillsides where my father fell in love with geology. Rockhound State Park, NM. May 2018.
Sunrise at Headstone Rock in Joshua Tree National Park. May 5, 2015
Nils Franco 