We mirror the years spent side by side.   [caption id="attachment_1804" align="aligncenter" width="820"] Hearts Mirrored © Yvonne Cornell 2013[/caption]   A gift from Dollaya…

I have quite possibly found a long lost brother, very nearly so! You already know by now that I run and hike to gather, and so does Francis Ooi, a creative director and amateur photographer living in…

“Patience child, patience. Remember, life is a journey. If you got everything you wanted all at once there would be no point to living. Enjoy the ride, and in the end you’ll see these ‘setbacks’ as giant leaps forward, only you couldn’t see the bigger picture in the moment. Remain calm, all is within

Mother nature crafted the one-seeded fruit of the Erodium or “filaree” flowering plant with a corkscrew tail. This gives it the greatest chance of survival with an explosive dispersal and the ability to burrow into the soil. When this tiny inch-long fruit falls to the ground from the parent plant, the tail coils and

[caption id="attachment_1010" align="aligncenter" width="820"] Birch Bark © Yvonne Cornell, 1978[/caption]     I made this gelatin silver print in 1978. I like the strong contrasts…

  [caption id="attachment_992" align="aligncenter" width="820"] Lords and Ladies © Yvonne Cornell, 2013[/caption]   Orange Candleflower. Cuckoo Pint. Lords and Ladies. All…

The season to forage for chestnuts is October through November at Skyline Chestnuts, a gather-your-own orchard in the Santa Cruz Mountains. This 20-acre orchard is blanketed in the morning fog at…

In life, a deeper exploration reveals unexpected surprises. At first glance, the Sheoak (she-oak) or Coast Beefwood looks like a tall wispy pine tree with long, segmented branchlets that resemble…

line up all the little live things, if only to kiss them each, once on the cheek, twice on the belly, and tell them they are loved.   [caption id="attachment_954"…