Point Reyes National Seashore webcam on a normal day (top) vs. today (bottom)7mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/NationalPark
[I Ate] Woodhouse Chocolates from the Napa Valley that my sister sent me for my birthday5mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/FoodPorn
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.3mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/sciencefiction
This morning on High Peaks Trail, Pinnacles National Park, California1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/NationalPark
Descending into Bear Gulch Cave, Pinnacles National Park, California1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/NationalPark
Been going through a lot of job interviews lately. This is the face they make when I don't give them the answer they want.1wk ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/babylon5
Blue whale vertebrae (with my knapsack for scale), Point Reyes National Seashore, California2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/NationalPark
View from the Dome Car, Toronto-Vancouver Via Rail, Northern Ontario, Canada [OC]11mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/trains
Dwarf Monkeyflower (Mimulus nanus var. mephiticus), Stanislaus National Forest, California [3264 × 1836] [OC]1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
My steak technique -- render fat layer; sear one side; oven finish in pre-heated cast-iron3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/steak
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.1mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/sciencefiction
Short hike this morning (Round Top in the distance), Eldorado National Forest, California1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/PacificCrestTrail
Moss, Saratoga Gap Open Space Preserve, California [4160 × 6240] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Albino Redwood Sapling (Sequoia sempervirens), Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [4721 × 3540] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
What's Under the Lexington Reservoir -- Old State Route 17 and an Offramp to the Ghost Town of Alma2wk ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/bayarea
Pussy Ears (Calochortus tolmiei), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [1588 × 1588] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Just replaced the batteries in my hight school calculator. Not only is it older than many of my colleagues, it's also been powered off longer than they've been alive.1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/vintagecomputing
[Point Reyes National Seashore, California] [wild] Found blooming end of March3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) & Miniature Lupine (Lupinus bicolor), Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve, California [2806 × 2806] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Star Trek: TNG] The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.2wk ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/sciencefiction
Stopped by the rich-people supermarket and acted like I belonged there (filet mignon, sauteed mushrooms, roasted garlic and onions, and you-guessed-it)3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/PutAnEggOnIt
This tree cross-section at Big Basin Redwoods State Park HQ sprouted in 544 (the century-old HQ was destroyed by the CZU lightning fire last summer)1wk ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/bayarea
Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis), Desolation Wilderness, California [3499 × 3369] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Tolmie Star Tulip (Calochortus tolmiei), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [2686 × 2686] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Stage Road, Santa Cruz Mountains, California [6240 × 4160] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [5312 × 2988] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/AnimalPorn
Butterfly Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus), Pinnacles National Park, California [2659 × 2659] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Samuel P. Taylor State Park, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
European Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [1921 × 3416] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
New Zealand Nightshade (Solanum aviculare), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3830 × 2553] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Yellow Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus), Butano State Park, California [4160 × 6240] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Strange little room somewhere in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [6240 × 4160] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Ancient Oaks Trail, Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, California [4049 × 4501] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/FoggyPics
Jimsonweed (Datura wrightii), San Benito County, California [2659 × 2659] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Tolmie Star Tulip (Calochortus tolmiei), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [4019 × 3014] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Pierce Point Road, Point Reyes National Seashore, California [4160 × 6240] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/RoadPorn
Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima), Stage Road, Santa Cruz Mountains, California [4079 × 3059] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
My hiking knapsack next to a bone I found, Point Reyes National Seashore, California2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/nationalparks
Yellow Mariposa Lily (Calochortus luteus), Skyline Open Space Preserve, California [2544 × 2544] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum), Crawford Lake Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada [1449 × 2576]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Pacific Starflower (Lysimachia latifolia), Skyline Open Space Preserve, California [2460 × 2460] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
State Route 236, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [4300 × 3232] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/RoadPorn
Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [3024 × 4032] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Albino Redwood Sapling (Sequoia sempervirens), Big Basin Redwood State Park, California [3095 × 3394] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Brittle Leaf Manzanita (Arctostaphylos crustacea ssp. crustacea), Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [4160 × 6240] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Highway 236, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California [4422 × 3321] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/RoadPorn
Point Reyes Tree Tunnel, Point Reyes National Seashore, California [5880 × 2489] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/RoadPorn
Purpletop vervain (Verbena bonariensis), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [2859 × 2859] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
One Seeded Pussypaws (Calyptridium monospermum), Yosemite National Park, California [2650 × 2650] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris var. vulgaris), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3024 × 4032] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Desolation Wilderness, California] [wild] Juniper? Ponderosa Pine?2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
The Never-to-be finished WW2 Battery Construction 129, Marin Headlands, California [1932 × 2576] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/FoggyPics
[Outdoors] [wild] Santa Cruz Mountains, California (found this today -- sure looks like an orchid)1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
What mountain is this? I took this photo from Stawamus Chief in 2006.1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/britishcolumbia
Cream Cups (Platystemon californicus), Pinnacles National Park, California [2988 × 2988] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Beef ribs seared then slow cooked in the oven with garlic, olive oil, rosemary, and thyme.2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/meat
Twinberry Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata var. ledebourii), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Woolly Bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum), Pinnacles National Park, California [2988 × 5312] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Corpses of the Rim Fire, Yosemite National Park, California [4690 × 3109] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/EarthPorn
How did an Austin-Healey 3000 get abandoned in Big Basin Redwoods State Park? [6240 × 4160] [OC]1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Butterfly Mariposa Lily (Calochortus venustus), Pinnacles National Park, California [2876 × 2876] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Samuel P. Taylor State Park, California [2922 × 2922] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Amador County, SR-88, California] [wild] What species of Calochortus? Nothing online looks quite right.3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
California Cream-cup (Platystemon californicus), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3733 × 2799] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), Cowell-Purisima Coastal Trail, California [2768 × 2768] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Doc cholesterol-shamed me again so I had to do something to make me happy -- Filet mignon, mushrooms, roasted onions and garlic3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/PutAnEggOnIt
California grass of Parnassus (Parnassia californica), Yosemite National Park, California [3472 × 2315] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Nameless outcrop veiled in fog, Point Reyes National Seashore, California2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/FoggyPics
Blue Dicks (Dichelostemma capitatum ssp. capitatum) & Ornate Checkered Beetle (Trichodes ornatus), Yosemite National Park, California [2894 × 2894] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Stanislaus National Forest] [wild] Found this yesterday just west of Yosemite 120 entrance3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
Looking down on the Pacific Crest Trail from Leavitt Peak, Emigrant Wilderness, California3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/PacificCrestTrail
Unidentified Flowers, Point Reyes National Seashore, California [5073 × 3804] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Checker Mallow (Sidalcea malviflora ssp. malviflora), Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, California [2497 × 2497] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium ssp. circumvagum), Mokelumne Wilderness, California [2553 × 1915] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
For displaying cloned dinosaurs, a scaled up Apiary would be far safer than an electric fence1mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/sciencefiction
Toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia), Saratoga Gap Open Space Preserve, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Remains of the Sonora and Mono Wagon Road along Deadman Creek, Stanislaus National Forest, California [4435 × 3306] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
Pacific bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa), Muddy Hollow, Point Reyes National Seashore, California [1956 × 3477] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Mist Trail seen from Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, California [8511 × 4493] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/EarthPorn
Shooting Star (Primula hendersonii), Saratoga Gap Open Space Preserve, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [5312 × 2988] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Well camouflaged Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) @ Kyburz, California4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/spiders
Stump walking up a hill, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/NationalPark
Oakland Star Tulip (Calochortus umbellatus), Ring Mountain Open Space Preserve, California [2506 × 2506] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
A little moss, Saratoga Gap Open Space Preserve, California [5324 × 3993] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Woolly Mule's Ears (Wyethia mollis), Mokelumne Wilderness, California [2864 × 3819] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Wreck of the Sweepstakes, Big Tub Harbour, Ontario, Canada [2576 × 1932]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/boatporn
Giant Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum), Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, California [4032 × 3024] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Milkmaids (Cardamine californica), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [3457 × 2593] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Harlequin Lupine (Lupinus stiversii), Yosemite National Park, California [3984 × 2988] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Point Reyes National Seashore, California] [wild] In bloom right now4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [2578 × 2578] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
The proper way to watch The Polar Express (with filet mignon and mashed potatoes both with garlic-rosemary-thyme butter).2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/PutAnEggOnIt
California Buttercup (Ranunculus californicus) with Spotted Cucumber Beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [4369 × 3276] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Leichtlin's Mariposa Lily (Calochortus leichtlinii), Alpine County, California [3024 × 3024] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Old Man's Beard (Geum triflorum), Stanislaus National Forest, California [2268 × 4032] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Is This The Regular Color For This Trillium Chloropetalum Flower Or Has It Gone To Seed? Usually These Are Red.3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/botany
California Azalea (Rhododendron occidentale), Yosemite National Park, California [5312 × 2988] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Iceplant (Carpobrotus edulis), Bean Hollow State Beach, California [6240 × 4160] [OC]2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
First try at sous-vide reverse seared New York steak (need to work on the crust, but I'm feeling pretty good right now)3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/steak
What trail is this? Somewhere on/around Mount Tamalpais looking towards San Francisco2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/Marin
Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii var. atomaria), Saratoga Gap Trail, California [5312 × 2988] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius), Point Reyes National Seashore, California [2463 × 2463] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
[Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California] [wild] What's up with this white evergreen?3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
[Outdoors] [wild] Flower looks like a rose but leaves do not @ Point Reyes National Seashore, California2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
Trail's End, Long Ridge Open Space Preserve, California [5356 × 3126] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/EarthPorn
[Sunol Regional Wilderness, California] [wild] Very large, portions over 7 feet! This lobe(?) as wide as a tennis racquet.3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatsthisplant
How would I find a mold to make this kind of cookie? Does it have a name?10mo ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/Baking
Calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica) and Sourgrass (Oxalis pes-caprae), Pigeon Point, California [4885 × 4101] [OC]4yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
These tubes of organic matter show up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains after the snow melts1yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/whatisthisthing
Cobweb Thistle (Cirsium occidentale), Yosemite National Park, California [3010 × 3010] [OC]3yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/BotanicalPorn
Filet mignon with mushrooms sauteed in the fond and garlic mashed potatoes (tried to make it rare)2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/steak
Cookie contest at work tomorrow -- almond flour shortbread filled with cream cheese icing and apple jam2yr ⋅ danpietsch ⋅ r/Baking