Welcome to my collection of interests. My home base is in the Sierra Nevada foothills midway between Fresno, California, and Yosemite National Park. In March 2006, I moved to a manufactured home in Oak Creek, a park in Coarsegold, California. It's only 5 miles from our former home, a fifth-wheel trailer in an Escapees co-op RV park called Park Sierra. We still travel part of the year in a Pleasure-Way van (class B motor home).

Birding was my passion for 20 years, but the pleasurable task of identifying and photographing Sierra wildflowers has compelled me for the last several years. One of the great things about wildflowers is that they stay relatively still! The bad thing is that there are so many of them that they can be very difficult to identify.

My online Wildflower Identification Guide (now 6 years old!) features photos of Sierra foothills plants found in Park Sierra's 120 acres. New species and photographs are added from year to year, and I humbly correct past mistakes as I learn more. Click on WILDFLOWER INDEX to get started.

Computing, particularly taking advantage of the Internet, is a daily interest. Learning to make websites has been (and continues to be) a real experience.

I have a great interest in Gardening, a job I continue to do for Park Sierra, as well as at my new home.

My Family page has a gallery of photos, and I try to add new ones from time to time. The collection on my Friends page includes a few of my four-footed pals.

If you'd like to see some critter photos, check out my Wildlife page. I've included a small butterfly list for the area.

When I'm On The Road, I'm often not on the internet, but I'm enjoying myself and gathering material for this website. (Ha! I'm really birding!)

I no longer copyedit for a living, but occasionally someone needs an editor for a privately published book. I edited nonfiction books as a freelancer for many years, even on the road. Therefore, on the Copyediting page I've included a few things to prove that old editors never die—they just keep editing their tombstones.

My latest books are Live Again, Die Again and its sequel Live Again, Love Again by Nila J. Gott. These novels, set in both modern and Civil War times, offer a can't-put-it-down read. Another recent book is "RVers: How Do They Live Like That?" (Answers For Those Who Wonder) by Judy Farrow and Lou Stoetzer. Another is Rex Goulding's delightful So You Want To Be An Airline Pilot.

I've added a Crafts page, which features one of my latest interests—Dutch embroidered cards.

If any of these topics interest you, follow these page links. Then come back and sign my guestbook (bottom of page)!