Bill Kress

Using Macro lenses and focus bracketing, many flowers, galls, bugs, etc. are quite beautiful.

Those little things you might see on oak leaves at the end of summer are Galls. I saw several different types of galls on the smaller oak...

Mid-May of this year, we were exploring areas in the northern reaches of Tahoe National Forest (elevation about 5,000 ft.) and came upon...

We often saw woodpeckers pecking hard on several old trees here in our Lincoln Hills community. As many as half-dozen birds at a time...

We’ve seen the Stream Orchid, Epipactis gigantea, in a number of wet areas around Central and Northern California. The toughest place to...

I’ve found an interesting plant in multiple locations in our community of Lincoln Hills (Placer County). In our Placer County, Lincoln...

We were walking towards Angler’s cove early morning and saw a Green Heron land on the lower pond. Apparently hungry, he waited very still...

Earlier this year, we found the Cypripedium californicum, California lady’s slipper at quite diverse elevations – in a Humboldt County...